The Lightship Group, LLC plays an important role in the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) primary tool for
preventive maintenance, the SAMM System. The Shipboard Automated Maintenance Management (SAMM) is MSC’s computerized
maintenance management system (CMMS). As a subcontractor working on the SAMM system, our team, with many years of
maintenance experience, and a professionally licensed staff is integrally involved in ensuring that eight different
Navy/MSC ship classes have accurate maintenance systems.
Overview
The Shipboard Automated Maintenance Management (SAMM) system is Military Sealift Command's (MSC) primary tool
for preventive maintenance. The SAMM System is an automated system for documenting accomplishment of onboard
maintenance tasks and for configuration control. SAMM uses the latest technologies in database and application
software to bring together (in a single integrated environment) the advanced tools needed by a ship's crew to
maintain the shipboard machinery in the highest state of readiness. Besides tools for maintenance scheduling and
machinery history record keeping, SAMM integrates machinery vibration monitoring, used lube oil analysis, electronic
watchkeeping data collection, and diesel engine combustion analysis into a single program.
SAMM is the MSC Engineering Office's primary shipboard maintenance management microcomputer program. SAMM is
designed to assist in both optimizing equipment performance and ensuring that the appropriate level of vessel
readiness is maintained. SAMM does this by establishing a schedule of required preventive maintenance actions for
each piece of maintainable shipboard equipment and by documenting and tracking equipment maintenance history.
Through the implementation of SAMM, MSC provides realistic and consistent fleet-wide standards for shipboard
maintenance of machinery. SAMM was developed to provide the MSC ship's Chief Engineer with an automated method
of tracking ship maintenance and repair requirements. Additionally, it can be used to assist the Chief Engineer
in maintaining the appropriate engineering repair forms (e.g., Voyage Repair Request) for MSC vessels.
SAMM Applications
The Condition Monitoring System (CMS) outlines the implementation of predictive maintenance technologies. The
primary systems developed and installed in support of predictive maintenance are the Vibration Monitoring System
(VMS) and the Oil Analysis System (OAS). Other systems in support of the CMS such are the electronic watch keeping
system (SHIPSLOG & LOGBOOK) and the diesel trending and performance analysis (DEXTER).
| Other applications in SAMM include: |
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| The Repair Module is used for documentation of minor repairs and unscheduled maintenance. |
| The Planned Maintenance (PM) Module is a master listing of all maintenance actions associated with shipboard equipment. |
| The Machinery History Module is used for documentation of important information related to shipboard equipment. |
| The Workbook Module is the repository for scheduled planned maintenance actions. |
| The Equipment Report Module is a utility to provide printouts of equipment information related to respective history, planned maintenance, and actions. |
| The ABS Module is used to track planned maintenance and document completions of equipment related to ABS and USCG oversight. |
| The Feedback Module allows the user to provide feedback to shore (via replication) for fine-tuning the database. |
| The Utilities or Administration Tools Module contains the applications to administer the SAMM database (e.g. establishing users of the SAMM database). |
