From a hull maintenance software to an innovation platform
The use of hull life-cycle maintenance software since 1995 on 26 major Brazilian oil company tankers has reduced inaccuracies in the evaluation of ship renewal costs during dry-docking. Due to its success, the software has been redeveloped and…
The Evolution of Corrosion Management
“If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The…
Warning: You're Losing Money by Not Using Corrosion Prevention
World's foremost authority on corrosion, Nace International has just published the study "International Measurements of Prevention, Application and Economics of corrosion Technology”, Impact. In it, the association estimated at $ 2.5 trillion…
PhDC4D offers investment opportunities for oil companies
This is a Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) integrated with PhDC4D. It was a project financed by a private company, like the oil ones obliged to invest part of its revenue in R&D, in Brazil. Last year, this obligation resulted in more than…
PhDsoft presents recent developments of PhDC4D to one of its clients
PhDsoft’s founder and CEO, Duperron Marangon spent last April 7th in a workshop with one of the company’s clients to explain the most recent developments of PhDC4D®, like piping integrity management. He also announced rapid piping modeling…
How to avoid unexpected expenditures on painting maintenance
During the preparation of the painting repair specification for the next dry dock of one container ship, an experienced engineer from a PhDsoft client realized the painting areas might had been underestimated. They were using figures from the…
C4D software helped a client save US$ 400K
A container ship suffered bottom damage due to grounding. Two shipyards were contacted to evaluate the damage and provide repair estimates. But the estimates of the amount of steel required for repairs varied by 40%. An accurate assessment of…