Maintenance

Make every moment count with a Ship Maintenance System that helps you plan ahead, manage tasks, and reduce costly downtime across your fleet.

Keep your vessels sailing smoothly

Minimize unplanned downtime with timely maintenance and clear job planning, no missed tasks or unexpected breakdowns.

Make maintenance easier onboard

Give your crew a tool they can rely on. Intuitive planning and real-time updates help them manage daily maintenance with structure and clarity.

Oversee maintenance across your fleet

Track and manage maintenance on all vessels through centralized data and real-time synchronization. Gain full control from ship to shore.

Overview

A Ship Maintenance System for fleet-wide oversight

SERTICA Maintenance supports efficient and structured maintenance across your fleet by connecting tasks, teams, and technical components in one system. From planning to execution and follow-up, you gain full control of maintenance activities and asset performance. Ensuring reliability, reducing downtime, and supporting compliance at every level.

Introduction

Build structure around every maintenance task

SERTICA Maintenance provides full visibility and control over your technical operations by connecting every maintenance activity directly to the equipment it concerns. At the heart of the system is a structured component tree that reflects the real-world layout of your vessel. Each component and subcomponent forms part of the hierarchy, allowing you to plan, execute, and document tasks with accuracy and consistency.

This structure enables you to track the full maintenance history of each asset, ensure correct linkage to spare parts and documentation, and maintain a clear overview across your fleet.

With SERTICA, you move from fragmented tasks to a connected, component-driven workflow that supports better planning, compliance, and long-term asset performance.

System

The Maintenance system

The core Maintenance system, in addition to the following included functionalities, is designed to give you the necessary features to optimize your daily maintenance tasks. Making planned maintenance an easy and integrated process in your crews routines.

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Analytics

Decision-making support through advanced analysis of fleet data, including KPIs and dry dock analysis.
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Defect Reporting

Report, track, and resolve unplanned breakdowns with a dedicated workflow that connects the vessel and office for faster resolution.
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Document Management

Organize, manage and distribute documents safely and efficiently between office and vessel.
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Inventory Management

Manage information about components, locations, jobs, history, certificates and spare parts effectively.
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Job List

Plan, structure and manage daily maintenance jobs electronically to improve productivity.
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SYNC

Synchronize data between SERTICA and other third-party systems to increase the level of automation.

Add-on Modules

Get additional modules, customizing the maintenance system to your specific needs, without paying for unnecessary functions.

Benefits

Unlock the value of a maritime Maintenance system

SERTICA Maintenance transforms maintenance from a daily task into a long-term performance strategy. Whether your goal is to reduce downtime, extend asset life, improve safety, or streamline collaboration between ship and shore, a modern maritime CMMS helps you operate smarter, across every vessel.

Marine technician in PPE performing maintenance work on a ship’s deck.
The strategic benefits of a ship maintenance system

Drive performance, control risk, and support long-term asset strategy

SERTICA’s ship Maintenance system turns daily maintenance tasks into a structured, long-term asset strategy. With standardized processes and centralized data, you ensure every job is executed correctly, tracked completely, and contributes to overall performance.

With one connected system in place, you turn maintenance from a cost center into a driver of safety, efficiency, and long-term operational value.

Simplify maintenance execution and free up valuable time across your vessels

Standardizing how maintenance is planned and performed reduces administrative overhead and ensures consistent execution onboard and ashore. As job lists, task breakdowns, and predefined workflows help your crew work faster, stay focused, and carry out maintenance with confidence.

When your maintenance system supports efficient execution, your entire operation becomes more predictable, responsive, and scalable.

Prevent disruptions and increase the return on every maintenance hour

Avoid delays and costly breakdowns with structured maintenance planning. With SERTICA, you schedule jobs based on time or usage, link inventory directly to tasks, and act on reported issues before they escalate.

Smarter maintenance planning keeps your vessels operational and your costs under control.

Strengthen safety standards and simplify compliance across your vessels

With clearly assigned responsibilities, role-based access, and digital validation, SERTICA Maintenance helps ensure that maintenance is performed correctly, documented properly, and ready for inspection. You create a safer working environment and reduce the risk of non-compliance through structured routines and full traceability.

From audit-ready logs to verified task completion, your maritime CMMS supports better safety practices, minimizes uncertainty, and makes regulatory compliance a natural part of daily operations.

Take full control of your safety procedures with a HSQE system that focuses on more than just maintenance.

We support you every step of the way

Project Manager

One reliable point of contact from start to finish

Active support

Gain success with our live support and customer success manager.

Industry experts

Developed inhouse by marine experts in collaboration with maritime customers.

Insights

Become an expert on our Ship Maintenance System

Explore every aspect of the ship Maintenance System (CMMS) through expert papers, webinars, live demos, and customer cases designed to help you stay op top of maintenance.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ship Maintenance System

What is a Planned Maintenance System (PMS) onboard ships?

A Planned Maintenance System (PMS) is a digital tool that helps shipping companies plan, execute, and document maintenance to ensure optimal vessel performance and compliance with industry standards.

With SERTICA, you can plan all your maintenance activities, and your crew can use a simple app to perform their daily tasks and documentation. All maintenance data, job history, and tasks are kept in one system, eliminating paperwork and reducing the risk of missed or delayed maintenance.

Implementing SERTICA as your Ship Maintenance System, you get all the support you need to digitalize and optimize your internal maintenance processes. Read more about the additional services you get with SERTICA.

What are the types of maintenance strategies for ships?

Choosing the right type of planned maintenance for ships depends on the equipment onboard and the operational requirements of your fleet. A flexible maintenance system is key to supporting a variety of strategies that match your specific needs. The three types of maintenance strategies are preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and corrective maintenance.

SERTICA allows you to combine multiple strategies of scheduling to trigger maintenance jobs. For example, a maintenance job can be set up based on calendar time, running hours, or condition-based indicators. These strategies ensure tasks are triggered at the most appropriate interval to help you maintain compliance, reduce downtime, and optimize asset performance.

Preventive Maintenance:

  • Scheduled at regular intervals (e.g., time-based or usage-based)
  • Minimizes the risk of unexpected breakdowns
  • Supports regulatory compliance

Predictive Maintenance:

  • Based on condition-monitoring
  • Enables early detection of potential failures
  • Reduces unnecessary work and optimizes spare part usage

Corrective Maintenance:

  • Performed after a failure or issue has occurred
  • Suitable for non-critical components with low operational impact
  • Can be cost-effective

Why invest in a Maritime CMMS?

Maintenance problems are often fixed onboard the ships as they arise without proper documentation. This urgency and lack of overview causes unnecessary downtime and costs companies a lot of money.

Investing in a Maritime CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) improves internal workflows and ensures reliable data exchange between vessels and shore-based offices. With a Maritime CMMS, maintenance management becomes streamlined, structured, and significantly more efficient across your fleet.

By eliminating manual processes and replacing scattered spreadsheets, emails, and documents, SERTICA offers a centralized platform for a full overview of your fleet’s maintenance. It supports both daily users and decision-makers with management tools for planning, executing, and tracking maintenance tasks.

To get the full benefits from your collected maintenance data and other systems you use, we suggest supplementing all your operational data with SERTICA Fleet to break down the data silos. 

How to reduce TCO with a Planned Maintenance System (PMS) onboard ships?

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) starts with smarter maintenance planning. SERTICA provides the tools to optimize maintenance workflows, reduce downtime, and extend the life of equipment – all key factors in lowering operational costs.

Plan and execute your jobs based on an advanced job list, which also shows the relations between jobs. Get an overview of inventory and components, which can be moved between vessels to reduce costs. By analyzing historical maintenance data, SERTICA helps you identify trends, avoid repeat failures, and reduce equipment downtime.

Typical metrics used to track TCO improvements with SERTICA include:

  • Reduction in unplanned downtime (hours/year)
  • Lower spare parts expenditure across the fleet
  • Improved maintenance task completion rates
  • Decreased number of repeated failures
  • Extended asset lifetime and optimized maintenance intervals

Follow and act on your maintenance history to reduce downtime on equipment and improve cost-efficiency.

Who needs a Ship Maintenance Software?

A Ship Maintenance Software is essential for shipping companies aiming to streamline operations, reduce downtime, and maintain compliance, regardless of fleet size or vessel type. SERTICA is designed for integration across fleets of different sizes and is fully equipped to cope with the demands of smaller operators and global fleets.

Whether you are managing a single vessel or an entire fleet, SERTICA provides a CMMS platform that enables consistent maintenance, data transparency, and efficient communication between ship and shore.

SERTICA supports all vessel types. Learn more about our customers.

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