Worked scenarios

What actually changes on a fleet

Full Ahead Maritime is a young product, and we would rather be straight with you than invent customer quotes. Below are four modelled operating scenarios drawn from how small fleets are genuinely run, with every assumption behind every number written out. Nothing here is presented as a measured customer result.

Predictive PMS

Four vessels, maintenance tracked in three separate spreadsheets

A coastal operator runs four general cargo ships. Each chief engineer keeps his own running-hours sheet; the superintendent rebuilds a fleet view by hand every month. Overdue critical jobs are found during the rebuild, not before.

What the product does

Equipment hierarchy imported once per vessel, with maker, model and criticality.
Running-hours, calendar and condition thresholds time the job; a superintendent confirms it.
Remaining useful life scored from hours and condition readings.
Overdue critical jobs surfaced on one fleet dashboard rather than in a monthly rebuild.

Modelled outcome

The fleet view is assembled from the record itself rather than rebuilt by hand each month. What that rebuild currently costs this operator is theirs to state — on their own figures, 4 hours a month at a €45/hour loaded cost. We make no claim about what changes for them.

Assumes 4 hours of consolidation per month and a €45/hour loaded superintendent cost. Your figures will differ; the cost-of-process page lets you enter your own.

Audit-ready compliance

Preparing for an ISM external audit from a shared drive

Evidence for the audit lives in email threads, a shared drive and the vessel's own folders. Two weeks before the audit, someone starts collecting it. Findings usually concern missing evidence rather than missing work.

What the product does

Statutory register per vessel for ISM, ISPS, SOLAS and MARPOL Annexes I–VI.
Drills, inspections and non-conformities logged against the requirement they satisfy.
Evidence attached at the point of work — photo, work order, receipt — not reconstructed later.
Audit-readiness score showing what is missing while there is still time to fix it.

Modelled outcome

Audit preparation becomes an export rather than a search. The evidence pack for a vessel is produced on demand from the record itself.

Illustrative operating model based on how the product works, not a measured customer result.

PSC readiness

A detention that started as an expired endorsement

Certificates are tracked in a calendar reminder set by one person. When that person is on leave, an intermediate endorsement lapses and the vessel arrives in a Paris MoU port with a document a PSC officer can invalidate in five minutes.

What the product does

Certificate and survey expiry shown in the product from 30 days ahead with a day count; a nightly check emails the workspace admins and superintendents once a certificate is inside 15 days — at the address each of them signed in with, which is not always their working company address.
PSC self-inspection run before arrival using the same items the officer works through.
Prior deficiencies carried forward with their close-out evidence attached.
Risk indicators flagged per vessel — flag, age, class, deficiency history.

Modelled outcome

The expiry is visible 30 days ahead, the evidence sits with the item, and the record shows who decided what. What to do with that time is the operator's call.

No detention-cost figure is claimed here because it varies enormously by trade, charter and port. The cost-of-process page prints what your current process costs you in your own figures, and nothing else.

Offline at sea

Crew stop reporting because the connection drops

The office buys a cloud PMS. At sea, the satellite link is intermittent, forms time out and work gets recorded on paper 'for later'. Later never arrives in the same detail, and the fleet record degrades.

What the product does

The whole application installs to the device and runs with no connection.
Jobs, readings and photographs are captured offline into a sync outbox.
The outbox uploads automatically when the link returns, preserving timestamps.
No parallel paper process, so the record stays complete.

Modelled outcome

Reporting compliance stops depending on bandwidth. This is the difference between a system the crew use and a system the office believes is being used.

Describes the product's offline architecture. Sync behaviour depends on the device retaining the installed application between voyages.

Run these numbers against your own fleet

Every figure above is a model, not a promise. Put your vessel count, admin hours and legacy licence fees into the calculators and see what the case looks like for you — then run a 30-day parallel review alongside your existing system.

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