VDB IS

Maritime · Operations

AI for maintenance knowledge retrieval

Can AI capture what our retiring operators know?

The challenge

Manuals, service history and operator notes are scattered, and the people who hold the tacit knowledge are approaching retirement.

Prerequisites

  • Digitised manuals
  • Work order history exportable from the CMMS or ERP

The approach

  • Consolidate manuals, work orders and engineer notes into one retrievable corpus
  • Plain-language search on the floor, on the devices people already carry
  • Structured capture interviews with senior operators before they leave
  • Answers cite the document and revision they came from

What makes it work

Knowledge capture is a deliberate interview programme, not a hope that the model infers it.

What we would measure

Mean time to repair

On recurring fault classes

Search success

Share of queries answered on the floor

Knowledge coverage

Assets with documented tacit procedure

Risk position — Limited risk. Safety-critical procedures remain human-authorised.

Baselines are established in your business during the assessment. We publish no borrowed benchmark numbers.

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