Study of QR Code Technology Application for Monitoring Activity of Ship Planned Maintenance System

Abstract

System and outfitting in a ship vary with different brands and treatment methods. These conditions can be an issue if the operator has undisclosed damages due to a lack of knowledge about the ship's maintenance records. An electronic planned maintenance system (ePMS) is a system that is currently used to collect the ship maintenance recorded data. However, the use of ePMS still has drawbacks. The appearance is less interactive, available information about the outfitting used in ships is limited, and the operator needs to search the outfitting manually with scrolling. This research aims to study the application of QR code technology for monitoring maintenance activities of ship systems and outfitting. This research was conducted based on field observation of ePMS, designing a QR code module for the ePMS application, developing algorithms, and creating programs for website and android based applications. In addition, trials of the application and calculation of the costs incurred for implementing the QR code method are also carried out. The distribution of questionnaires for practitioners accompanied the trial. Based on that, the implementation of QR code in ePMS can be applied, easy to use and facilitate the supervision of ship system and outfitting activities with a mean score of 4.39 or equivalent to strongly agree. The addition of the QR code module is costed IDR120,426,000.00, where the process of recognizing and searching for ship systems and outfitting to view maintenance plans and maintenance history on the ePMS application is enough by scanning a QR code.

Keywords

• monitoring
• planned maintenance system
• ship outfitting maintenance
• qr code