FNT Advanced Services Ltd is a maintenance consulting company based in Greece that provides condition monitoring services using techniques like vibration analysis, infrared thermography, and oil analysis. It helps maritime and industrial customers implement condition-based maintenance strategies to detect maintenance issues early, reduce costs, and plan repairs. FNT's services include on-site and remote machinery monitoring, troubleshooting, pre-inspection surveys, and training. The company has experience in monitoring a wide range of shipboard assets to diagnose issues like bearing wear and unbalance using vibration analysis.

1. FNT Advanced Services Ltd
Machinery Condition
Monitoring

2. 1
FNT Advanced
Services
Company Profile.

3. Company Profile
FNT Advanced Services Ltd is a Maintenance Consulting Company based in Athens, Greece, established to provide
worldwide preventive maintenance services for Industry and Maritime Shipping Companies. Its scope is to manage and support
state-of-art maintenance strategies (Proactive maintenance -PdM, Condition Based Maintenance – CBM) through bespoke
solutions for its customers.
Using tools such as Vibration Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Acoustic Emission Analysis, Motor Current Evaluation,
and Lube Oil Metal Particle Analysis experienced and certified engineers carry out Condition Monitoring activities on-site during
machinery operation, or remotely based on online data collecting systems or data collected by customers with their own means.
Services provided by FNT Advanced Services Ltd include but are not limited to:
 Machinery Condition Monitoring services (CM)
 Troubleshooting and diagnosis of persistent problems
 End of Warranty period surveys in order to detect critical components failures and establish claims
 Pre dry-docking surveys for all rotating equipment, high pressure piping, electrical power distribution panels and voltage
transformers, in order to contribute to a reduction in time spent in dry dock
 Remote data analysis and condition reporting of data collected by client
Our honorable customers list comprises:

4. 2014-2015 activities in numbers

5. 2
A Brief
Introduction to
Condition Based
Maintenance in
Shipping

6. Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance Corrective Maintenance
Scheduled,
continuous or
on request
Scheduled Deferred Immediate
Condition Based
Maintenance
(CBM)
Planned
Maintenance
(PMS)

7. Maintenance costs Unexpected failures Repair and overhaul
time
Spare part inventory Work orders
The rewards of CBM
CBM vs. PMS
PMS CBMDNV Nov 17, 2010, Rotterdam

8. shipping industry facts and CBM
Unskilled labor + time-based inspections have contributed to:
• maintenance induced failures
• unnecessary work
• extreme workload and
• unnecessary investments in redundancy.
CBM is a preventive strategy based on routine measurements and analysis.
Evaluation of the analysis results determines maintenance & repair actions
requirement. Vibration analysis, IR thermography, Acoustic Emission analysis and Oil
analysis are the most commonly used methods for CBM.
Early warning of problems.
A reduction in spare part consumption.
Class approval as an alternative to
opening up machines for inspections.
The work is planned & crew has stable
working hours.
Reduce the number of work orders,
because unnecessary inspections &
over-maintenance is avoided.

9. statistics of machinery failures
• 89% of failures are random and not machinery age related.
Traditional Planned Maintenance strategy based on operating
hours of machinery is not an option when reliability matters.

10. stages of failure
The earlier the failure detection, the lower the cost to repair
and the impact to production.
CBM Detects
Problems Early

11. Vibration Analysis as Condition Monitoring Technique
The most prevalent method for condition monitoring:
 It verifies at real time machine operation within acceptable limits
 It reacts immediately to machine condition changes
 It identifies the cause of problem allowing time for corrective action-
before failure.

12. Other Condition Monitoring Techniques
IR Thermography
A non-destructive inspection technique which uses the
warmth radiation of objects in order to identify
malfunctions.
Acoustic Emission (Ultrasound)
A non-destruction technique used for early identification
of wear and tear on rotating machinery parts, for steam
traps malfunction and for high pressure pipeline leakages.
Oil Analysis
Wear particles analysis and contamination analysis of oil
provides valuable information about machinery condition
and early signals of failure.

13. which Condition Monitoring technique is suitable?
assets VA IR AE OA
Pumps & motors  
Fans & blowers  
F.O and Lube Oil Separators 
Compressors  
Gearboxes  
Turbo  
Power generators   
Steam traps  
High pressure pipe 
Electric switchboard 
VA: vibration analysis AE: acoustic emission
IR: infrared thermography OA: oil analysis

14. Bearing wear & lubrication
Unbalance & Misalignment
Bend shaft
Looseness
Belt problems
Resonances
Transmission Gears issues (tooth wear, backlash, misalignment, eccentricity)
Flow related problems (cavitations, turbulence)
Motor stator, rotor & winding issues
which failures can be diagnosed with vibration analysis?

15.  Scheduled periodic FNT visits onboard ship worldwide, vibration data
collection, analysis and Machinery Condition Report.
 Troubleshooting and diagnosis.
 End of Warranty period surveys.
 Pre Shutdown/ Pre dry-docking surveys
 Remote data analysis and condition reporting of data collected by client.
 Vibration Analysis and Infrared Thermography training.
 Vibration data collectors Leasing solutions
tailor made services for ships

16. FNT keys for successful CM
Simplicity
Flexibility
Availability
Consistency
Simplicity

17. FNT Advanced Services Ltd
7 L. Porfyra Str.
Athens 1141
Greece
Tel: +30 2130023692
Fax: +30 2102282803
E-mail: info@fnt.gr
Web: www.fnt.gr
FNT is a brand independent Condition
Monitoring Service Provider using a
combination of an extensive range of
maintenance techniques to optimize
customer's benefits.
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