Promotion and application of harbor structure maintenance management system and information system
- Date：2019-03-07
- Update：2019-03-07
- Department：IOT
Project Overview：
The main domestic commercial harbor structures have been in use for more than 40 years. Take the Port of Keelung as an example, among the 44 wharfs under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan International Ports Corporation, 28 of them have been used for more than 40 years, and some even as ong as 70 years. Therefore, strengthen and maintaining the efficiency of these structures is an urgent task that cannot bear delay. In practical terms, this requires establishing a maintenance management system paired with an information system to effectively use the repair and maintenance funds to ensure the safe operation of facilities and prolong their service life to achieve sustainable operation for the harbors.
In recent years, this Institute has conducted studies, testing and assessments on the current conditions of harbor structures such as wharfs and breakwaters in major domestic commercial ports and their affiliated ports, through establishing inspection systems for ordinary, regular and special situations to discover structural damage and adopt appropriate repair and maintenance countermeasures as early as possible to preventgreater damage. Develop a maintenance management information system at the same time to optimize the expansion module functions and the contents of database at the same time, to improve the operation and practicability of the system. The research outcomes will serve as a reference for policy planning and practical implementation by navigation and port management units.
Research Achievements：
(1)This Institute used comprehensive investigation and testing methods to understand the current conditions of harbor facilities such as wharfs and breakwaters in the ports of Hualien, Keelung, Suao and Taipei as well as the Kinmen Port of the Harbor Bureau, Kinmen, Matzu Port, Harbor Bureau of Lienchiang County, and reviewed the current maintenance management methods, conducted corrections and improvements, to assist the port corporations in solving their dilemma of insufficient manpower shortages that cannot improve the maintenance of facilities.
(2)Improved and expanded the old harbor structure maintenance management system, improved operational functions and convenience of use, and added three modules of system announcements, messages and graphics, to enhance interactive communication and feedback, present comprehensive graphic information , and redesign the system use function with Responsive Web Design, to assist the Ports Authorities to enhance their wharf maintenance and control capabilities with information and system based methods under the constraint of limited manpower.
Promotion of Outcomes and Benefits ：
(1)Provide the project outcomes to the Maritime and Port Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Port Units of Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Harbor Bureau of Kinmen County, Harbor Bureau of Lienchiang County or the Engineering Consultant Companies as the important reference to manage harbor structure maintenance management policy or practical implementation.
(2)Organized the “Port of Hualien Harbor Structure Maintenance Management System” educational training and outcomes promotion workshop in December 2017for the Maritime and Port Bureau and Port of Hualien of Taiwan International Ports Corporation, to provide them with the practical applications for managing harbor structure maintenance management business.
(3)Based on an interpellation in the Control Yuan on risk supervision management and maintenance management of the old wharfs, this Institute has been appointed to manage the "International and Domestic Commercial Ports Harbor Structure Maintenance Management Plan” for 2018-2021, and has formed a Project Team to establish the maintenance management mechanism.
(4)The Lienchiang County Government has appointed this Institute to manage the "Operation and Maintenance of the Harbor Structure Maintenance Management System" for 2017 - 2020 for the requirements of future maintenance of harbor facility decision-making, to establish the maintenance management system and improve the practical functions of its information system.
Summary of Key Research Outcomes ：
