Company Profile
Who are the masters of science in maintenance?
Founded in 1970 and was subject to a Management Buyout in 2005.
Involved with petro chemical industry, printing, manufacturing, marine, offshore, food processing and power generation industries.
After initially meeting some resistance to newcomers in the marine field, VCI's reputation gradually won over companies. The work done by VCI's consultants in trouble-shooting, high speed in-situ dynamic balancing, and advising client companies on specific vibration and related noise problems, has been accepted as being of great benefit.
From 1980, VCI developed a Vibration Monitoring and Preventative Maintenance Programme for the ships machinery of the tanker divisions of two oil majors. The programme, after consultations with, and amendments suggested by Lloyds, has been approved by all major classification societies including Lloyds, Bureau Veritas, and American Bureau of Shipping, for use by selected, reliable shipping companies. Companies instigating this programme have benefited from early warning of developing faults, allowing timely ordering of spare parts. Avoiding unecessary opening of machinery and avoiding faults being introduced. Thus the necessity to carry large inventories of spares on board, with the associated capital outlay, is reduced.
We have specialised in perfecting:
- Predictive maintenance vibration programmes, which are class approved.
- Trouble shooting using noise and vibration techniques.
- Sea/Gas trial machinery surveys. Warranty/Guarantee period surveys to assess the condition of machinery/structure for new or newly acquired vessels.
- Pre Shutdown/Pre dry dock surveys.
- High speed in position dynamic balancing of engines, fans, motors, centrifuges, pumps etc.
The world's most experienced specialists in maintenance technology
You no longer need to run the risk of catastrophic failure because you were not aware of the component's condition. No longer do you need to dismantle machinery simply to ensure that everything is in good working order. No longer is it necessary to replace expensive, perfectly good parts which have no wear simply because they are on the Planned Maintenance Schedule.
VCI offer a broad spread of specialist monitoring and condition assessment services for all classes of mechanical and electrical plant: at sea, offshore and on land. These include Routine Condition Monitoring, Trend Assessment, Emergency Fault Analysis, Pre-overhaul, Drydock and New Plant Surveys.
With the most advanced instrumentation for data capture, information logging and analysis technology; VCI provides a unique background of marine and landbased engineering experience.
The quality and advantages of these expert services are now high on the agenda for ship owners and ship managers, plant operators and engineering managers throughout all parts of the world. This is the kind of service that is right at the heart of today's most effective RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance) programmes.
