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RetroNET FMS
RetroNET offers a fully digitalized fleet management solution, providing end-to-end maritime services tailored to maximize profitability for ship owners and managers.
RetroNET FMS

Overview

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In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business landscape, infrastructural limitations should never be a barrier to your company’s efficiency and growth. Your IT staff and crew members shouldn’t be bogged down with time-consuming system management tasks that distract them from strategic work, especially when it comes to critical security issues. An independent, robust, and scalable system is all you need to accomplish key jobs seamlessly, without compromising on performance or security.

Retrotech SA’s SaaS-based service model offers unparalleled benefits for companies of all sizes, empowering them to overcome infrastructural challenges:

  • Low initial setup cost.
  • Flexibility in usage.
  • No in-house maintenance costs.
  • Secure system accessible globally 24/7.
  • No data loss.

Our state-of-the-art infrastructure, coupled with our commitment to exceptional customer service, guarantees that your business operations run smoothly, efficiently, and without interruption.

By partnering with Retrotech SA, you can focus on your core competencies while we take care of your IT infrastructure needs. Our SaaS-based service model is designed to future-proof your business, providing you with the agility, scalability, and security you need to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving maritime industry.

RetroNET offers a fully digitalized fleet management solution, providing end-to-end maritime services tailored to maximize profitability for ship owners and managers. Leveraging adaptive technology, our user-friendly platform is designed for effortless implementation, minimal training requirements, and automated processes that optimize shipboard operations.

Performance-Driven Excellence

Engineered to surmount the maritime industry's unique challenges, RetroNET's software empowers you to navigate operational complexities with unparalleled efficiency.

Elevating Safety and Productivity

By harmonizing crew performance and resource utilization, our system enhances overall productivity while upholding the highest safety standards.

Cost Optimization through Intelligent Operations

RetroNET's intelligent solutions drive effective performance and operational efficiencies, ultimately translating into reduced overhead costs and maximized profitability for your fleet.

Technical

Efficient maritime operations require meticulous maintenance to mitigate equipment failures and costly downtime.

RetroNET’s Fleet Management System provides a comprehensive planned maintenance solution, ensuring your vessels operate seamlessly while reducing risks and unexpected expenses from unforeseen defects.

Our system encompasses robust functionalities for maintaining critical vessel components, including engines, deck machinery, electrical systems, and specialized equipment. With an intuitive graphical interface, you can swiftly access essential maintenance tasks and monitor your fleet’s overall health.

Highlights
  • Color-coded markers for easy identification of critical jobs.
  • Job prioritization based on schedules.
  • Powerful filtering capabilities for rapid data retrieval.
  • Complete visibility into maintenance status across your fleet.

Eliminate infrastructural constraints and empower your team with RetroNET’s user-friendly planned maintenance system. Optimize operations, minimize disruptions, and maximize asset availability with our advanced fleet management solution tailored for the maritime industry.

Technical Panel Contents

Elements that the system includes

Our Planned Maintenance system enables you to monitor and maintain every set of activities surrounding your vessels.

  • Lists all planned maintenance for the vessel, to be done as per a time-bound or event-based schedule with their respective interval periods.
  • Features the ability to drill down through the component list and find component/system-wise jobs.
  • Displays jobs per their status – Critical, Due, Postponed, and Overdue with visual identification for CSM jobs, Overhauls, critical jobs, critical components, etc.
  • Estimates due dates for time-based jobs with an integrated machinery counter management system.
  • Allows job allocation to crew as per rank seniority to maintain compliance.
  • Offers easy identification of required maintenance along with spare part usage and current stock status through a connected inventory management module.
  • Provides printable job cards with work procedures for carrying to the actual job site.
  • Allows vessel staff to raise postpone requests and send them to the office for approval.
  • Enables easy one-click requisition generation for spare parts with low stocks for efficiently carrying out maintenance.

The defect reporting system monitors all unforeseen occurrences/ad-hoc maintenances on the vessel. It lists maintenance jobs and schedules pending tasks related to them.

The system:

  • Categorizes, reports, and provides follow-ups on defect jobs.
  • Executes and tracks affected PMS jobs along with the defects to keep the PMS system aligned with occurred defects.
  • Filters and identifies major defects/different defect types.
  • Displays jobs per their status – Critical, Due, Postponed, and Overdue.
  • Defect detailed analysis for decision making.

The Alarm and Trips section tests the vessel’s sensors and engineering safety equipment to ensure their functioning status. The alarm and trip function allows direct entry of values. It graphically displays historical test values for determining the sensors’ health status.

Megger tests are system-generated checks to determine insulation values for electrical fittings. As soon as a megger test is completed, the function graphically displays historical values for the existing status.

For emergency vessel shutdowns, this Shutdown and Immobilization module is essential. It is a digital system remotely handled by shore authorities and integrated within the technical module’s planning board to process shutdown requests.

It provides personnel authority to conduct risk assessments using the software itself. The user can also raise additional extension requests using the same panel.

Benefits:

  • Enables vessel crew members to evaluate risks.
  • Allows ship authorities to remotely approve/disapprove shutdown requests.
  • Eliminates hassles of manual filling, reducing paper waste.
  • Schedule, view, and edit planned and unplanned maintenance. Add start dates, end events, and create timelines.
  • Finish pending maintenances before upcoming audits, inspections, or long voyages.
  • Assign repair teams to maintenance along with the responsible person.
  • Request shore assistance from the planning board and raise service requisitions.
  • Raise shutdown immobilization requests and send them to the office for approval.
  • Review and reschedule maintenances as per dynamic business requirements.
  • Evaluate comprehensive risks.
  • Use the inbuilt risk matrix template to jumpstart the evaluation process.
  • Add more points for fine-tuning to your requirements/the current situation.
  • Mitigate risks and stay in compliance.
  • Plan spares for upcoming jobs.
  • Check for availability within the onboard stores or place comprehensive orders if spares require procurement.
  • Add complete traceability to spares, right down to the storage bin identity.
  • Complete reports with evidence adhering to all regulatory compliances.
  • Submit reports for approval by higher authorities.

In the maritime industry, efficient job management is paramount to maintaining operational excellence and minimizing downtime. RetroNET’s Job Tracking module provides a centralized command center for monitoring and controlling both planned maintenance and defect-related tasks across your fleet.

Single-Screen Visibility

Gain a comprehensive overview of all active jobs through a unified dashboard, eliminating the need to toggle between multiple interfaces. This streamlined approach enhances situational awareness, enabling proactive decision-making and resource allocation.

Planned Maintenance Job Tracking

Stay ahead of scheduled maintenance activities with real-time monitoring of planned maintenance jobs. Track job progress, assigned personnel, required spare parts, and completion statuses, ensuring timely execution and compliance with maintenance schedules.

Defect Job Management

Promptly address unforeseen defects and minimize operational disruptions. Raise defect jobs, prioritize repairs based on criticality, and monitor their progress through resolution, fostering a proactive maintenance culture.

Job Amendments and Approvals

Streamline job management workflows through integrated amendment and approval processes. Crew members can request job amendments, attach supporting documentation, and initiate approval workflows directly from the job tracking interface.

The system provides job approval authority to personnel in command, viz. the vessel superintendent. The superintendent then has the authority to approve, reject, or ask for further documentation, images, etc., at their discretion.

Central management holds the authority to add, delete, or modify different task sets in a single window. If maintenance uses identical work procedures, they are all updated automatically simultaneously. A single source of updates reduces data packet sizes and economizes on expensive maritime internet bandwidth.

The Service and Repair Requisitions module, available to office users, is a centralized database to handle all support requests by vessels. It contains details about history, equipment (Spares/Stores) information, service status, supplier details, and all requisitions presented in sections, viz., active, purchased, delivered, on hold, and rejected. It includes a tracker with a list of documents, activities, and available budgets.

  • If a vessel identifies errors in planned maintenances or defect reports, they can raise an escalation within the dashboard and raise a service request.
  • Award Purchase Orders to workshops based on criteria such as service delivery time and quoted price.
  • The Service and Repair Requisitions dashboard supports:
  • Vendor evaluation
  • Sending quotations to multiple vendors simultaneously
  • Final selection based on market evaluation of the service/request.
  • Purchase Order Generation

Work History stores a vessel’s complete service history. Access can be regulated as per personnel authority. It provides a complete list of jobs scheduled for a specified time. It’s a simple dashboard with filters to rapidly locate the service history of any part or job, for a quick review and the ability to track all aspects of the job, including the number of times performed, reported forms, attached documents, photographs, etc.

Effective fleet management hinges on accurate and up-to-date vessel data. RetroNET offers powerful data building capabilities, enabling you to create a centralized repository of critical information, including machinery components, spare parts, and planned maintenance schedules, ensuring seamless operations across your fleet.

Our solution is proudly type approved by DNV-GL, a leading classification society, ensuring compliance with the highest industry standards.

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Procurement

The shipping industry demands constant vigilance and adaptation to meet ever-evolving operational needs.

RetroNET’s procurement module is meticulously designed to streamline all procurement activities across your fleet. Conventional manual processes involving Excel spreadsheets or physical documentation often led to cost inefficiencies, information silos, and cumbersome approval workflows – ultimately resulting in unnecessary delays.

Our digitalized procurement solution eliminates these hurdles, enabling rapid, paperless requisitioning of essential materials for efficient vessel management. Through intelligent automation, the hassles of manual inventory tracking are alleviated, empowering you with data-driven procurement decisions and granular cost control.

With RetroNET, you can seamlessly integrate requisition, planned maintenance, and inventory management processes, harnessing a unified operational overview. Our intuitive interface allows users to effortlessly view machinery diagrams while placing orders, streamlining part selection, and expediting the procurement cycle.

Optimize inventory levels by avoiding excessive stockpiling while ensuring the availability of long-lead critical spares. Manage consolidated requisitions, control material shipments, evaluate quotations from multiple vendors, and select convenient delivery ports – all from a centralized platform.

Gain comprehensive visibility into administrative overheads across individual vessels and your entire fleet, enabling precise cost management and operational efficiencies.

The shipping industry demands constant monitoring and improvisation to meet fast-growing needs.

RetroNET’s procurement panel is designed to help you manage all procurement activities for your vessels.

The manual procurement process through MS Excel sheets or hard copies leads to unwanted cost overheads and documentation overload due to limited information access for the team and a tedious approval flow, causing unnecessary delays in the fleet. Our procurement module allows for quick and paperless requisition of material required for vessel management.

Module automation removes the hassle of manually managing inventories. As procurement decisions are made with visibility of all relevant data, finer cost control is achieved.

Highlights
  • Effectively link the processes of requisition, PMS, and inventory management.
  • Replace the slow, manual part selection process with a speedy and intuitive utility that allows users to view machinery diagrams while ordering.
  • Avoid excessive inventory while ensuring the required level of long-lead critical spares.
  • Manage consolidated requisitions, control material shipments, select the best quotations from various sources, and choose convenient delivery ports for receiving ordered material.
  • Control administrative costs and overheads for vessels as well as entire fleets.
  • View screens relevant to the vessel or the shore office as per the location.

The procurement module user invokes various functions through user-friendly graphical tiles on the dashboard.

Procurement Panel Contents

Elements that the system includes

From identifying the spare part requirement to raising requests for spares, this panel enables the user to handle all requests as per the required workflow.

  • View spare parts grouped by assembly and their details.
  • Save time and effort by automatically selecting parts from catalogs based on the minimum stock levels maintained onboard.
  • Maintain minimum on-board stock levels.
  • Avoid duplicate purchases.
  • Notify as soon as quantities reach their defined reorder level.
  • Highlight new materials added to the requisition list.
  • Seek multi-level approval from the purchase department on critical requests.
  • Modify required quantity, change delivery destination, reject specific parts, etc.
  • Color-coded markers are available for updating status.

The same interface handles requisitions of items other than engineering spares, such as general engineering products, safety products, food stock, medical supplies, consumables, furniture, fittings, stationery, and similar items.

  • Group items under several store types.
  • Generate a linked price list to save time.
  • Generate purchase orders.

Consumable and non-perishable food items for the crew that need replenishing at regular intervals can be managed under this panel. The section also caters to ethnic sensitivities by making data sets relevant as per crew nationality and dietary preferences. This function allows detailed management of consumables for the crew, with the possibility of quick changes in case the number of people changes through auto-calculation formulas.

In the dynamic maritime landscape, efficient procurement processes are essential for ensuring operational continuity and cost-effectiveness. RetroNET’s comprehensive Purchase Management module empowers you with a suite of powerful tools to streamline your purchasing activities, from quotation analysis to delivery monitoring.

Quotation Management and Analysis

Gain complete control over your quotation processes through our intuitive quotation management interface. Invite multiple suppliers simultaneously, facilitating a competitive bidding environment. Conduct side-by-side comparisons of quotations, evaluating factors such as pricing, lead times, and supplier performance metrics, to make informed purchasing decisions.

Lowest Price Selection

Effortlessly identify the most cost-effective option by leveraging our intelligent lowest price selection feature. The system automatically highlights the quotation with the lowest price, enabling you to make purchases based on optimal pricing swiftly.

Split Purchases

Optimize your procurement strategies by splitting purchases across multiple suppliers. Allocate order quantities based on predefined criteria, such as lead times, supplier capacities, or cost considerations, ensuring a diversified and resilient supply chain.

Multi-Pricing from Same Vendor

Accommodate complex pricing structures by allowing multi-pricing from the same vendor. Manage variations in pricing based on factors like order quantities, delivery locations, or specific project requirements, ensuring accurate cost projections and effective budget management.

Delivery Monitoring

Maintain end-to-end visibility into your supply chain by tracking deliveries from order placement to final receipt. Monitor shipment progress estimated arrival times, and any potential delays, enabling proactive logistics coordination and minimizing operational disruptions.

Audit Trail and Documentation

Ensure compliance and transparency by maintaining a comprehensive audit trail of all purchasing activities. Easily access and retrieve essential documentation, such as purchase orders, invoices, and shipping records, facilitating efficient record-keeping, and auditing processes.

With RetroNET’s Purchase Management module, you can streamline your procurement operations, leverage data-driven decision-making, and foster cost-effective sourcing strategies, ultimately driving operational excellence and maximizing profitability across your fleet.

Ensuring timely delivery of critical spares and stores is vital for maintaining uninterrupted maritime operations. RetroNET’s Delivery Tracking module provides end-to-end visibility into your supply chain, enabling proactive management of inbound shipments and minimizing potential delays.

Through this comprehensive solution, you can track the real-time status of your orders, from procurement to final delivery. Gain insights into key milestones, such as order confirmations, shipment dispatches, and estimated arrival times, empowering you to make informed decisions and coordinate logistics effectively.

The module seamlessly integrates with your procurement and inventory management processes, facilitating seamless order fulfillment and inventory replenishment. Customize delivery alerts and notifications to stay informed about shipment progress, enabling proactive communication with suppliers and coordinating timely receipt at designated delivery ports.

Additionally, the Delivery Tracking module maintains a comprehensive audit trail, capturing essential documentation, such as bills of lading, invoices, and customs clearance details, ensuring compliance and enabling efficient record-keeping.

By leveraging RetroNET’s Delivery Tracking capabilities, you can optimize your supply chain operations, minimize downtimes, and ensure the timely availability of critical resources across your fleet, fostering operational excellence and customer satisfaction.

Streamlined Supplier Management

In today’s complex maritime supply chain, effective supplier management is crucial for ensuring timely procurement and minimizing operational disruptions. RetroNET’s comprehensive Supplier Management module empowers you to establish strategic vendor partnerships, fostering collaboration and driving cost efficiencies across your fleet.

Vendor Evaluation and Selection

Leverage our robust vendor evaluation framework to assess potential suppliers based on performance metrics, compliance standards, and industry best practices. Streamline the selection process by conducting multi-criteria analysis, facilitating informed decision-making, and identifying optimal vendor partnerships.

Quotation Management

Seamlessly manage quotation requests and evaluations through a centralized platform. Invite multiple vendors simultaneously, compare quotations side-by-side, and select the most favorable offers based on predefined criteria, ensuring cost-effective procurement.

Purchase Order Generation

Expedite the procurement cycle by generating purchase orders directly from approved quotations. Automate the creation of comprehensive order documentation, including terms, conditions, and delivery specifications, minimizing manual efforts and reducing errors.

Vendor Performance Tracking

Continuously monitor vendor performance through customizable scorecards and key performance indicators (KPIs). Assess metrics such as on-time delivery, quality conformance, and responsiveness, enabling data-driven decisions for future engagements.

Contract and Document Management

Maintain a centralized repository for vendor contracts, certificates, and associated documentation. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, streamline contract renewals, and enhance visibility into vendor relationships across your organization.

By leveraging RetroNET’s Supplier Management capabilities, you can cultivate strategic vendor alliances, optimize procurement processes, and drive operational excellence throughout your fleet’s supply chain.

Cost Control

Effective financial management is pivotal to the profitability and sustainability of maritime operations.

RetroNET’s “Budgets and Cost Center” module empowers you with granular control over budgets and expenditures, fostering cost transparency and enabling data-driven decision-making across your fleet.

Through this powerful module, you can establish comprehensive budgets tailored to your organization’s unique requirements. Define intricate budget structures encompassing multiple cost centers, territories, and vessel types, ensuring precise allocation, and tracking of financial resources.

Key features includes:

  • Construct multi-dimensional budgets aligned with your financial objectives.
  • Incorporate historical data, forecasts, and market intelligence for accurate budget projections.
  • Allocate budgets across cost centers, departments, and vessel operations.
  • Monitor actual costs against budgeted amounts in real-time.
  • Gain visibility into cost breakdowns by category, supplier, or project.
  • Identify variances and deviations from approved budgets promptly.
  • Analyze spend patterns and trends across your fleet.
  • Implement spend controls and approval workflows for effective cost management.
  • Enforce compliance with predefined spending limits and authorization hierarchies.
  • Leverage advanced forecasting tools to anticipate future expenditures.
  • Conduct "what-if" scenario analyses to evaluate the financial impact of strategic decisions
  • Optimize resource allocation and mitigate potential cost overruns.
  • Generate detailed financial reports and dashboards.
  • Customize report formats to align with specific stakeholder requirements.
  • Facilitate informed decision-making through data-driven insights.

By harnessing the power of RetroNET’s “Budgets and Cost Center” module, you can navigate the complexities of maritime finance with precision, accountability, and agility, ultimately driving profitability and ensuring long-term financial sustainability for your fleet operations.

Safety Control

With minimal inputs, expect effective quality management of your vessel.

The Safety module seamlessly integrates the vessel’s mandated health, safety, environment, and quality-related procedures. It is a great way to measure and eliminate possible risks involved in your fleet by providing timely reminders. The intuitive interface and paperless workflow are combined with intelligent data linking, assuring the crew in effectively maintaining all statutory compliances with the least effort involved.

Safety Module Elements

The system contains everything that you need to handle security measures on the ship.

All vessel related certificates and surveys are grouped by categories for simplified segregation.

  • Issue and expiry dates.
  • When and who changed the certificate date.
  • Attach a digital reference if required.

Conduct surveys to identify techno-commercial estimates of various planned tasks soon. Locating a precise document is very simple. You can set reminders for certificate renewals and track their validity using the panel. Once renewed, updating the document status is easily done without having to leave the main screen.

Independent risk assessment may be done using inbuilt templates providing standard inputs to gauge hazard.

Create, add, or modify new risk assessment templates urging the defined parameters. Inbuilt forms are designed towards saving huge time and efforts.

The system is well connected with shutdown requests, PMS jobs, defect reports and unplanned jobs.

We support 3×3, 5×5, 6×6, right up to any matrix size as per company standards.

Get graphical matrix for the entire risk assessment process.

Near-miss reporting alerts you to dangerous conditions detected before their occurrence. Get root-cause analysis of the incident and details of the potential damage that could have occurred. Plan necessary mitigation measures based on event evaluation & avoid recurrences of such events in the future.

Get details of incidents that lead to either equipment damage or harm to crew members.

The root-cause analysis of the incident reports the intensity of the damage caused. The panel provides preventive measures to evaluate the event and suggests actions to avoid their occurrences.

Streamline incident reporting, investigation, and analysis with our specialized module designed for the maritime industry. Key features include:

  • User-friendly incident reporting from any device
  • Comprehensive data collection for thorough documentation
  • Structured investigation management and root cause analysis
  • Regulatory compliance with industry standards
  • Trend analysis and corrective/preventive action tracking
  • Seamless integration with existing systems

Cultivate a culture of safety, minimize disruptions, and safeguard your assets, crew, and cargo through effective incident management.

Always stay in compliance by identifying unsafe acts and conditions.
You can identify the unsafe cause. Vessel and office users can issue NCs (Non-conformances) if they foresee an issue & take preventive measures to reduce the vessel’s technical malfunctions.

Crew members can finish pending jobs, fill in work details, attach images or reports as evidence, and close pending non-conformances without leaving the screen.

CLASS Survey, Port State Control Survey, Superintendent Inspection, Internal/External Audit, 3rd Party inspections, etc., can be recorded into the system for better tracking and completion. Officers can visit the vessel to check if it is fit for purpose and record the same for further reference and analytics in digital form.

Internal and external inspections and their respective findings can be recorded into the system:

  • Track, monitor, and complete inspection findings.
  • Generate completion reports to submit to third parties.
  • Issue Non-Conformance reports against inspection findings.
  • Prepare images or diagrams against findings to document the case history.
  • Schedule recurring inspections.
  • View intricate details of various tasks and assign tasks to responsible persons.
  • Track the progress of each inspection.
  • Create a new unplanned job or defect job against a finding.

The Document Manager is designed to store and manage various company-related ISM/SMS documents in digital form to avoid maintaining physical copies on the vessel. The system allows editing and replacing documents as per new revisions for the vessel and stacking them in the Document Manager based on categories, viz. Manuals, Forms, and SMS/ISM Documents.

  • Upload/modify documents within the system is hassle-free, unlike physical copies.
  • Record complete information on the revised forms. Documents can be accessed through the vessel from any location.
  • Document modifications or replacements can be notified to the vessel staff through the Document Notification in the Document Manager.

Forms Reporting allows users to report all the ISM/SMS forms as per the company’s ISM/SMS documents, which can be imported into the system during implementation. Forms can be reported by the vessel, and the office can request further amendments/corrections, thus maintaining data correctness.

The panel connects to technical reporting. Forms can be filled against unplanned jobs, defect reporting, and PMS jobs.

The Safety Committee Meeting is a gathering of the Master, safety officials, Heads of Departments, and crew members on the vessel to discuss matters relating to Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment. It ensures the vessel and crew follow all safety procedures while doing their jobs and maintaining a safe working environment.

Emission Control

The key for today's offshore and marine industry is to exhibit environmental responsibility.

Clients expect reliability and high-performance standards for greenhouse exhaust gases. It is a matter of international control. Adhering to IMO & MARPOL Annex VI regulations established to prevent air pollution from ships is highly important.

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Sulphur oxides (SOx) are the two most important gases in terms of emissions. Annex VI has an organized structure for the reduction of both in the next 10 years. Establishing emission control areas is quite challenging for the entire shipping industry. Ship management judges and decides their actions based on cargo handling and fluid regulatory background. Any non-compliance may lead to heavy penalties.

Despite the technical uncertainties that exist, our emission control monitoring system has proven to be one of the most effective follow-up systems. It provides long-term service on the vessel as a reliable and robust method to confirm compliance as per the emission regulations.

Key Features
  • Single analyser to measure and evaluate multiple gases.
  • Voyage-wise analysis of emissions between two ports.
  • Monitors overall performance of the vessel
  • Markers like CO2 emitted between EU ports, arrival, departures

Crew Manager

A flawless crew management system designed to effectively support your marine crewing requirements.

The vessel’s effective performance depends on the crew’s skill sets and qualifications. The job remains the same while the crew keeps changing as per the duration of their work contracts. RetroNET’s crew management system is an imperative tool to implement effective management. It is perfect for small, medium, and large fleet managers and vessel owners.

Crew Manager Module Elements

RetroNET’s Crew Document Management system is tailor-made for utilization in the shipping industry. It ensures that needs and demands specific to the industry are met. The automation processes used by our software simplify the flow of events and ease out the entire affair, a significant time-saving element. One of the many attributes of automating the Crew Document Management process involves using key web pages where candidates input and send in their requests. The software captures and classifies the given information.

It allocates certificates like education qualifications, work experience, appraisal documents, medical certificates, and other personal documents.

  • Generate crew cards or entire reports about crew members.
  • Check details of members who have signed in or signed off.

The Crew Replacement Planner aligns with the OCIMF Crew Replacement Matrix and Safe Manning Matrix. It ensures effective management of crew certificates and documents while containing an exhaustive list of crews and their attributes. Top management can easily identify everyone working on the vessel.

The System:

  • Quickly finds a list of available crew members along with their competencies and matches them to job vacancies.
  • Holds a list of certificates required as per company standards.
  • Manages various crew-related factors such as:
  • Wage Calculation
  • Registration
  • Crew Database
  • Search utility for replacement.
  • Appraisal notation
  • Credentials and documentation management

The ship management system ensures smooth sailing for every vessel voyage.
Driven by the OCIMF matrix, the crew replacement planner suggests replacing the existing crew with new candidates.

The crew planner section includes areas like:

  • NMSI (number of months since inactive)
  • NMSCR (number of months sailed on the current rank)
  • NMTE (number of months total experience, including inactive periods)
  • NMTS (number of months total sailed)
  • LAS (last appraisal score)
  • CED (certificates and documents that are expiring)
  • WOC (working for another company)
  • Next available date

This utility lists all suitable candidates while displaying their attributes (or lack thereof) on the same screen. This helps in the easy and speedy selection of the most suitable crew for upcoming replacements.

The Crew Training Planner maintains records of all crew members with details of course topics, dates, and their respective completion status.

Top management can:

  • Mark or assign new training for individuals or groups.
  • Generate lists of active and inactive crew members.

Crew appraisal consists of a detailed questionnaire about the crew members’ abilities, knowledge, and skill sets. The section also lists crew shortfalls on the vessel.

The crew appraisals and promotions have the following features:

  • A rank-wise configurable list of appraisal questions can be set up to assess every rank as per company standards.
  • Recommend and record training sessions for crew appraisals with integration with the Crew Training Planner.
  • The appraiser can recommend the appraisee for promotions while the final decision on accepting the promotion stays with the shore office.
  • Generate printable reports for archival purposes.

RetroNET’s crew payroll simplifies the payroll process of crew members in your organization. Leave pays, crew wages, allotments, cash to master, wage slips, portage bill reports, and all other expenses can be easily calculated using the integrated module.

  • Portage Bills are supported and integrated with the payroll, so deductions are automatically added to the salary.
  • Bank Remittance Reports can be generated through the system.

The module includes all details of salary accounts and routines for payrolls. The daily routines comprise the maintenance of accounting, salary accounts, requirements, and many reports.

Our payroll module is designed to match requirements from global organizations.

Ensuring your maritime crew gets proper rest is critical for safety, performance and complying with international regulations. RetroNET makes crew rest hour tracking and management simple.

Key Features:

  • Automated Crew Rest Tracking - Log work and rest periods for all crew members through integration with bridge systems and customizable input options. Data is compiled into an auditable database.
  • Regulatory Compliance Monitoring - RetroNET tracks crew rest against STCW, MLC 2006, and other applicable regulations. It alerts you to potential non-compliance issues before they happen.
  • Fatigue Risk Management - Advanced analytics identify risk factors like excessive work hours and disrupted sleep cycles. Mitigate fatigue-related risks with RetroNET.
  • Crew Planning and Scheduling - Optimize crew rotations, shift work, and scheduling based on rest rules. The system accounts for training, drills, and other duties.
  • Reporting and Record Keeping - Generate detailed reports demonstrating regulatory compliance during audits and inspections. Historical records are maintained for years.

Don’t leave crew rest compliance to paper logs and guesswork. RetroNET provides efficient, integrated tracking and analytics to manage all aspects of crew rest for your fleet.