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The challenge: bringing normative knowledge and engineering know-how together in complex analyses

In the maritime industry, system analyses for safety-critical installations are both a regulatory requirement and technically extremely demanding. A complete Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) per IEC 60812 calls for a deep technical understanding of one's own systems along with a confident command of normative requirements. The underlying standards and classification guidelines alone run to more than 500 pages.

The challenge lies not in the willingness but in the access: standards texts, internal system documentation, wiring diagrams, component specifications and experiential knowledge from past projects are spread across many documents and systems. Anyone carrying out a complete system analysis spends much of their time not on the actual engineering judgment, but on searching, cross-referencing and pulling together the groundwork.

Every project has its own character and often consists of more than 5,000 parts and over 500 components. The technical and commercial analysis is correspondingly involved, and it demands expertise across the entire process, from the sales quotation through supporting product management to engineering design and service.

The solution: MAIA as the central knowledge gateway for system analyses

Hoppe Marine uses MAIA as a knowledge platform that supports engineering in producing standard-compliant system analyses. The approach brings together normative knowledge, internal engineering know-how and project-specific data in a single, consistently accessible and verifiable knowledge system:
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• Regulatory foundations are stored in MAIA and available at once, no more manually combing through 500-page standards texts.
• Templates drawn from Hoppe's own FMECA tables and from standards bodies serve as a structural blueprint that MAIA factors in directly.
• Engineering knowledge such as technical system documentation, wiring diagrams and component specifications is integrated on a per-project basis and immediately searchable.
• Persona prompting casts MAIA in the role of a knowledgeable assistant with a clear glossary and normative context, so that answers stay consistently at the right technical level.
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The result: engineering can focus on the engineering judgment rather than on assembling the groundwork. Verification and validation of all analysis results naturally remains with the responsible system managers.

The result: more time for engineering judgment, at the same normative quality

With MAIA, the bulk of working time shifts from gathering information to the actual value creation: the expert judgment, the verification and the derivation of technical measures by the experts at Hoppe Marine. Decisions are still made by people. MAIA takes the research off their hands, not the judgment. That fits a working day in which responsiveness and short feedback loops with customers remain important. And it shows where the real benefit lies: in the interplay between MAIA and the team's experiential knowledge.‍

Faster, more robust quotation decisions

During a quotation phase, MAIA makes all relevant standards and experience-based foundations available within a short time. Sales and project management can soundly assess technical risks, even for plant concepts being realized for the first time, and reliably quantify the commercial consequences.‍

Knowledge transfer across the company

The projects, templates and technical documents stored in MAIA are used beyond the knowledge management team, for instance to structure internal e-learning courses along three knowledge levels (Basic / Advanced / Expert).

Primäre Use Cases‍

Support for system analyses (FMECA) in ongoing projects

MAIA provides engineering with structured access to:

• Normative requirements
• Project experience from past projects
• Internal system documentation on sensors, pumps and control components
• Wiring and circuit diagrams as searchable PDF sources
• Project-specific templates for the output format

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‍Simplified system analysis for the quotation phase

MAIA supports the rapid assessment of new project concepts through access to:

• Customer specifications from the request for quotation
• Empirical values from comparable system standards
• Technology options along with availability and supplier data
• Normative minimum requirements for quotation assessment

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Example prompts

"What requirements does IEC 60812 set for assessing failure modes in safety-critical systems, and what are the limit values for the risk priority number?"

"Which failure modes are documented for our anti-heeling system's pump systems, and what redundancies does the system documentation provide for?"

"Are there specific requirements from the classification societies (e.g. DNV, Lloyd's Register) that must be taken into account when designing our anti-heeling system?"

For any open questions, you can contact Lars Jaspersen at Hoppe Marine at l.jaspersen@hoppe-marine.com.