Ship inspection system and method

Abstract

The present invention relates to the technical field of ship inspection. Disclosed are a ship inspection system and method. The system comprises an inspection item database, an inspection task module, an inspection report generation module, an inspection analysis module and optimization modules, wherein the inspection task module is used for sequentially calling ship inspection items from the inspection item database and constructing a ship inspection plan on the basis of the ship inspection items; the inspection report generation module is used for performing inspection of the ship inspection items on the basis of the ship inspection plan to generate a ship inspection report; the inspection analysis module is used for analyzing the ship inspection report to obtain an analysis result of the ship inspection items, and calculating weight factors on the basis of the analysis result; and the optimization modules are used for adjusting the order of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database on the basis of the weight factors. The system can standardize ship inspection items, and associate ship inspection tasks with inspection reports.

Description

System and method for ship physical examination Technical Field

[0001] The present invention belongs to the technical field of ship physical examination, and more particularly relates to a system and method for ship physical examination. Background Art

[0002] Existing ship inspections are conducted according to ship inspection items, problems are discovered and raised, and the ship is notified to make corrections. However, the design of existing ship management software for ship inspections only implements online operation processes, but has not yet formed a complete ship inspection closed loop. Specifically, there are the following defects:

[0003] (1) Ship inspection items are not standardized. Each company has customized some ship inspection items, resulting in a lack of standardized statistics. In addition, the workload of establishing inspection item lists for different ships of each company is also very large, and there are often omissions or unreasonable phenomena, which makes the ship inspection work not efficient and comprehensive.

[0004] (2) There is a disconnect between ship inspection tasks and inspection reports. After executing the ship inspection task, it is necessary to create additional problems found in the inspection and then manually associate them. The problem list task cannot be automatically generated based on the inspection task execution results, and the association relationship cannot be automatically established.

[0005] (3) Due to the lack of standardization of ship inspection items and the lack of correlation between inspection reports and tasks, there is a lack of inspection analysis, which makes it impossible to further optimize inspection items and form a complete closed loop of ship physical inspection.

[0006] The main reasons for the above defects include:

[0007] (1) There are many ship inspection items, involving inspection items from different countries, regions and companies, and there is a lack of unified coding and standardized sorting.

[0008] (2) Because different companies have different management requirements, different processing procedures will be established according to the type of problem after the inspection task is completed. Inspection tasks and problem processing procedures belong to different work contents and involve different responsible entities and processes. Therefore, many information systems have not developed their automatic correspondence, lack of association, or still require manual association.

[0009] (3) The existing information system only provides an online operation process. Due to the lack of a standardized project list and the lack of automatic association between inspection tasks and inspection reports, it is impossible to perform statistical analysis and implement a truly closed loop for ship inspection.

[0010] (4) The existing information system is more of an internal enterprise management system, lacking the support of platform big data and unable to obtain effective platform public resources. The platform is also unable to obtain analysis results from the enterprise's inspection summary to optimize project data.

[0011] Therefore, how to standardize ship inspection items and associate ship inspection tasks with inspection reports is an urgent problem that technical personnel in this field need to solve. Summary of the Invention

[0012] In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a system and method for ship physical examination to at least solve some of the technical problems mentioned in the above background technology.

[0013] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention adopts the following technical solutions:

[0014] On the one hand, an embodiment of the present invention provides a system for ship physical inspection, including an inspection item database, an inspection task module, an inspection report generation module, an inspection analysis module, and an optimization module;

[0015] The inspection task module is used to sequentially call ship inspection items from the inspection item database and construct a ship inspection plan based on the ship inspection items;

[0016] The inspection report generating module is used to inspect the ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate a ship inspection report;

[0017] The inspection analysis module is used to analyze the ship inspection report to obtain analysis results of the ship inspection items; and calculate weight factors based on the analysis results;

[0018] The optimization module is used to adjust the order of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database according to the weight factor.

[0019] Furthermore, the inspection item database includes a public database, a private database and a calling module;

[0020] The public database is used to establish a unified coding system for ship inspection items on the platform and store a variety of ship inspection items; each ship inspection item is recommended and categorized according to the ship type and the ship's navigation area;

[0021] The calling module is used to call corresponding ship inspection items from the public database according to the preset ship type and the preset ship navigation area, retain the original standard code and add the user-defined code, and store them in the private database;

[0022] The private database is used to call ship inspection items from the public database through the calling module, and is also used to directly create custom ship inspection items, add custom codes and store them according to the classification method of the unified coding system.

[0023] Furthermore, the inspection task module is also used to set the execution mechanism and execution process of the ship inspection task.

[0024] Furthermore, the ship inspection report includes inspection issues, attributes of the inspection issues and handling methods of the inspection issues.

[0025] Furthermore, the attributes of the inspection problem include non-conformities and inspection and rectification.

[0026] Furthermore, it also includes an automatic association module; the automatic association module is used to send the inspection problem and the processing method of the inspection problem to the corresponding processing agency or acceptance agency according to the attributes of the inspection problem.

[0027] Furthermore, the analysis results include the frequency and severity of problems occurring in the ship inspection items.

[0028] Furthermore, the inspection and analysis module includes a public analysis result storage submodule and a private analysis result storage submodule;

[0029] The public analysis result storage submodule is used to store the analysis results of the ship inspection items called from the public database;

[0030] The private analysis result storage submodule is used to store the analysis results of the ship inspection items called from the private database.

[0031] Furthermore, the optimization module includes a public optimization module and a private optimization module;

[0032] The public optimization module is configured to adjust the ranking of the ship inspection items in the public database according to the weight factors corresponding to the ship inspection items retrieved from the public database;

[0033] The private optimization module is used to adjust the order of the ship inspection items in the private database according to the weight factors corresponding to the ship inspection items called from the private database.

[0034] On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for ship physical examination, which is applied to the above-mentioned system, and includes:

[0035] Retrieving ship inspection items from the inspection item database in sequence, and constructing a ship inspection plan based on the ship inspection items;

[0036] Inspect the ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate a ship inspection report;

[0037] Analyzing the ship inspection report to obtain analysis results of the ship inspection items; and calculating weight factors based on the analysis results;

[0038] The order of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database is adjusted according to the weight factors.

[0039] It can be seen from the above technical solutions that, compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a system and method for ship physical examination, which has the following beneficial effects:

[0040] 1. The present invention sets up a classification and coding system for ship inspection items according to different ship types, different navigation area requirements, etc. Based on this, a ship inspection item database is established, which solves the problem of non-standardization of current ship inspection items.

[0041] 2. This invention incorporates a correlation processing mechanism into the inspection report, allowing the inspection report (results) after the inspection task is completed to automatically generate different types of inspection issues and automatically associate them with the predetermined issue processing flow, reminding each responsible person to handle them. This solves the correlation problem between inspection tasks and inspection issues.

[0042] 3. The present invention is provided with an inspection analysis module to analyze different inspection problems in the inspection results, so as to determine the importance of various inspection items and the types of problems that are prone to occur on the ship itself under conditions such as different ship types and different navigation area requirements, thereby reminding the ship to further strengthen subsequent inspections and preventive measures. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0043] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the following briefly introduces the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the description of the prior art. Obviously, the drawings described below are merely embodiments of the present invention. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on the provided drawings without paying any creative work.

[0044] FIG1 is a schematic diagram of a system framework for ship physical examination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0045] FIG2 is a flow chart of a method for ship physical examination provided by an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0046] The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without making creative efforts are within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0047] As shown in Figure 1, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a system for ship physical inspection, including an inspection item database, an inspection task module, an inspection report generation module, an inspection analysis module and an optimization module; wherein the inspection task module is used to call ship inspection items from the inspection item database in sequence, and construct a ship inspection plan based on the ship inspection items; the inspection report generation module is used to inspect the ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate a ship inspection report; the inspection analysis module is used to analyze the ship inspection report and obtain analysis results of the ship inspection items; and calculate weight factors based on the analysis results; the optimization module is used to adjust the order of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database according to the weight factors.

[0048] Next, each of the above modules will be described separately.

[0049] 1. Inspection project database:

[0050] The inspection project database includes public database, private database and call module;

[0051] Since each company currently customizes its ship inspection items, resulting in a lack of standardized statistics, in an embodiment of the present invention, a classification and coding system for ship inspection items is set up according to various ship types and various ship navigation areas, and a standardized database for ship inspection items is constructed based on this system, that is, a public database is constructed; specifically, the public database is used for the platform to uniformly establish a coding system for ship inspection items and store a variety of ship inspection items; each ship inspection item is recommended and classified and displayed according to the ship type and ship navigation area, so as to facilitate unified calling by shipowner users within the platform; the calling module is used for shipowner users to retrieve corresponding ship inspection items from the public database according to preset ship types and preset ship navigation areas, retain the original standardized coding and add user-defined coding, and store them in the private database; the private database is used to call ship inspection items from the public database through the calling module, and is also used to directly create customized ship inspection items, and customize the added coding and store them according to the classification method of the unified coding system.

[0052] Through the inspection project database, a coding system for ship inspection projects was established, so that the inspection projects of different ships were established in the standard database for platform users to call, which solved the problem of non-standardization of the basic database and provided a basis for project statistical analysis and project specification association.

[0053] 2. Inspection task module:

[0054] The inspection task module includes an inspection plan submodule and an inspection agency submodule; among them, the inspection plan submodule is used to call ship inspection items from a public database or a private database in sequence, and construct a ship inspection plan based on the called ship inspection items; the inspection agency submodule is used to set the execution agency and execution process of the ship inspection task.

[0055] 3. Inspection report generation module:

[0056] The inspection report generation module is used to inspect ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate a ship inspection report. The ship inspection report includes inspection issues, their attributes, and how they are handled. The attributes of inspection issues include non-conformities and inspection and rectification. If an inspection item in the ship inspection report is abnormal, a non-conformity or inspection and rectification will be automatically generated.

[0057] 4. Inspection and analysis module:

[0058] The inspection analysis module is used to analyze the ship inspection report and obtain the analysis results of the ship inspection items; the analysis results include the frequency and severity of problems in the ship inspection items; and then calculate the weight factor based on the analysis results;

[0059] The private analysis results are the severity and frequency of problems in different inspection items within the company's ships. These are calculated and stored through the weight factor module, thereby optimizing the company's own private inspection item library. Inspection items that frequently cause problems are pinned or summarized, which facilitates subsequent prompting of shipowners to strengthen the scheduling of inspection tasks and improve subsequent management work.

[0060] The public analysis results summarize the inspection and analysis results of all shipowners on the platform, thereby obtaining a broader analysis, which items frequently encounter problems for different ships in different navigation areas, the extent and frequency of these problems, and are calculated and stored through the weight factor module. This also facilitates the subsequent optimization of the ranking of inspection items in the public library, forming a series of indicators such as "100 Common Problems for Ocean-Going Bulk Carriers", "100 Key Inspection Items for Ocean-Going Container Ships in Typhoon Weather", and "Top 10 Common Problems for Oil Tankers in 2023". Shipowners on the platform can quickly select and strengthen their own products in a targeted manner.

[0061] The inspection and analysis module also includes a public analysis result storage submodule and a private analysis result storage submodule; wherein, the public analysis result storage submodule is used to store the analysis results of the ship inspection items called from the public database; the private analysis result storage submodule is used to store the analysis results of the ship inspection items called from the private database.

[0062] 5. Optimization module:

[0063] The optimization module includes a public optimization module and a private optimization module; wherein the public optimization module is used to adjust the order of the ship inspection items in the public database according to the weight factors corresponding to the ship inspection items called from the public database; the private optimization module is used to adjust the order of the ship inspection items in the private database according to the weight factors corresponding to the ship inspection items called from the private database;

[0064] Through the above-mentioned inspection analysis module and optimization module, the results of the ship inspection report are analyzed to obtain the time, frequency, degree, etc. of the problems in the ship inspection items. The public analysis results and private analysis results are divided and stored in the corresponding weight factors, so as to further optimize the inspection items in the public and private libraries, so as to better plan future inspection tasks (inspection plans).

[0065] In another embodiment, an automatic association module is also included, which is used to send the inspection problem and the handling method of the inspection problem to the corresponding processing agency or acceptance agency according to the attributes of the inspection problem; specifically, general ship inspection items have fixed handlers and acceptors. The system can preset the handlers and acceptors of the project here, or set the handlers and acceptors of the project problem when the problem first appears in the inspection report. The system will store it so that when a problem occurs in the inspection project in the future, it will automatically associate the handler and acceptor to achieve an automatic association effect; through the automatic association module, the inspection results after the execution of the inspection task are automatically associated to generate inspection problems (non-conformities and inspection rectifications), and the inspection problems are circulated according to the handlers and acceptors preset or stored for the project.

[0066] As shown in FIG2 , an embodiment of the present invention further provides a method for ship physical examination, which is applied to the above-mentioned ship physical examination system. The method includes:

[0067] Call ship inspection items from the inspection item database in sequence and build a ship inspection plan based on the ship inspection items;

[0068] Inspect ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate ship inspection reports;

[0069] Analyze the ship inspection report to obtain the analysis results of the ship inspection items; and calculate the weight factors based on the analysis results;

[0070] According to the weight factors, the ranking of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database is adjusted.

[0071] Next, the above content will be described through a specific embodiment.

[0072] The inspection database contains 1,000 bulk carrier inspection items. Using the module, the user selects 100 of these items (one of which is "C1001 Regularly Replace Fresh Water and Food for Life Rafts"), adds the user's company code (adding a suffix to the item, becoming "C1001-GS01 Regularly Replace Fresh Water and Food for Life Rafts"), stores them in a private database, and adds 50 custom inspection items, totaling 150 ship inspection items. Using the inspection task module, the user schedules an annual first-quarter inspection of these 150 items for a specific ship, assigning the inspection leader, department, and individual responsible for any issues (the individual responsible for "C1001-GS01 Regularly Replace Fresh Water and Food for Life Rafts" is the third mate). When the inspection manager executes the ship inspection plan and completes the inspection of 150 ship inspection items, the inspection report generation module will automatically collect the inspection manager's inspection records, and automatically generate inspection questions for abnormal items, and send them to the department and person responsible for the problem (the inspection record is added to the inspection item to form a question, such as "C1001-GS01 Regular replacement of fresh water and food for life rafts is abnormal, not replaced regularly, and expired", reminding the third mate to make corrections). At the same time, the inspection analysis module will analyze the ship inspection report, calculate the weight factor based on the analysis results, and feed it back to the inspection item database based on different dimensions (because a problem occurred, the weight of the corresponding C1001 and C1001-GS01 in the inspection item database is increased by one point). When other ships call it or the ship calls the ship inspection item database in the future, it will find that the data analysis results and recommendation results such as the frequency of occurrence and severity of the inspection items will be optimized (because many ships have C1001 and C1001-GS01 problems, the item is likely to appear in the following recommended lists: 2022 Common Ship Issues; List of Common Defects in the Duties of Third Officers; 100 Common Problems for Bulk Carriers, etc.).

[0073] In summary, the ship inspection system and method provided by the embodiments of the present invention form a complete digital management closed loop, encompassing the configuration of ship inspection items, the automatic association of inspection tasks with inspection results, and the determination of inspection item importance through statistical analysis of data. The system automatically analyzes data and continuously optimizes ship inspection items and plans from both public and private perspectives, thereby achieving comprehensive and efficient ship inspections. This contributes to ensuring the safety of ship operations and preserving the value of ship assets.

[0074] The various embodiments in this specification are described in a progressive manner, with each embodiment focusing on the differences from other embodiments. Reference can be made to the common and similar parts between the various embodiments. For the devices disclosed in the embodiments, since they correspond to the methods disclosed in the embodiments, the description is relatively simple, and the relevant parts can be referred to the method description.

[0075] The above description of the disclosed embodiments is intended to enable one skilled in the art to implement or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to one skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments shown herein but is intended to conform to the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A system for ship physical examination, characterized in that: It includes inspection project database, inspection task module, inspection report generation module, inspection analysis module and optimization module; The inspection task module is used to sequentially call the ship inspection items from the inspection item database and construct a ship inspection plan according to the ship inspection items; The inspection report generating module is used to inspect the ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate a ship inspection report; The inspection analysis module is used to analyze the ship inspection report to obtain the analysis results of the ship inspection items; and calculating a weight factor according to the analysis results; The optimization module is used to adjust the ranking of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database according to the weight factor.

2. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 1, characterized in that: The inspection item database includes a public database, a private database and a calling module; The public database is used for the platform to uniformly establish a coding system for ship inspection items and store a variety of ship inspection items; Each ship inspection item is recommended and classified according to the ship type and the ship's navigation area; The calling module is used to retrieve the corresponding ship inspection items from the public database according to the preset ship type and the preset ship navigation area, retain the original standard code and add the user-defined code, and store it in the private database; The private database is used to call the ship inspection items from the public database through the calling module, and is also used to directly create custom ship inspection items, add custom codes and store them according to the classification method of the unified coding system.

3. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 1, characterized in that: The inspection task module is also used to set the execution mechanism and execution process of the ship inspection task.

4. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 1, characterized in that: The ship inspection report includes inspection issues, attributes of the inspection issues and methods for handling the inspection issues.

5. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 4, characterized in that: The attributes of the inspection issues include non-conformities and inspection rectifications.

6. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 4, characterized in that: It also includes an automatic association module; the automatic association module is used to send the inspection problem and the processing method of the inspection problem to a corresponding processing agency or acceptance agency according to the attributes of the inspection problem.

7. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 1, characterized in that: The analysis results include the frequency and severity of problems occurring in the ship inspection items.

8. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 2, characterized in that: The inspection and analysis module includes a public analysis result storage submodule and a private analysis result storage submodule; The public analysis result storage submodule is used to store the analysis results of the ship inspection items called from the public database; The private analysis result storage submodule is used to store the analysis results of the ship inspection items called from the private database.

9. The system for ship physical examination according to claim 2, characterized in that: The optimization module includes a public optimization module and a private optimization module; The public optimization module is used to adjust the ranking of the ship inspection items in the public database according to the weight factors corresponding to the ship inspection items called from the public database; The private optimization module is used to adjust the order of the ship inspection items in the private database according to the weight factors corresponding to the ship inspection items called from the private database.

10. A method for ship physical examination, characterized in that: A system for ship physical examination according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the method comprising: Calling ship inspection items from the inspection item database in sequence, and constructing a ship inspection plan according to the ship inspection items; Inspect the ship inspection items according to the ship inspection plan and generate a ship inspection report; Analyze the ship inspection report to obtain analysis results of the ship inspection items; and calculate weight factors according to the analysis results; The ranking of the ship inspection items in the inspection item database is adjusted according to the weight factor.

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