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Shipdex is the International Business Rules developed to standardize the production and the exchange of technical and logistic data within the shipping community. Corena and Spectec have teamed to offer this free webinar, which will introduce the basic concepts and discuss the measurable cost benefits of adopting the standard - issues relevant to both shipyards and owners. . What is Shipdex and what is the purpose of it? . What are Data Modules? . Why do you need a CSDB solution? Data validation - assure the quality of your data! The webinar is scheduled for February 9, 2012 at 10 a.m. PDT.

SpecTec Group and their partner CORENA, a S1000D software and implementation service, announced today that they have signed a strategic contract with Korea based KJ Radio for the AMOS Shipdex Suite. “KJ Radio has selected the AMOS Shipdex Suite, developed by CORENA and distributed by SpecTec Group," confirmed Sang-Hwan Oh, KJ Radio Research Engineer. “It is a big pleasure to...obtain our first customer in Korea – an important market for the global shipping industry,” says Toralf Johannessen, President and CEO of CORENA. KJ Radio also ordered a combined AMOS Shipdex Suite and Shipdex training course, which has already been successfully delivered.

SpecTec and Corena announced MAN Diesel & Turbo has purchased the AMOS Shipdex Data Manager. “More and more ship-owners require maintenance manuals for new ship acquisitions to be Shipdex compliant. MAN Diesel & Turbo wishes to meet such requirement the best way possible. We have therefore ordered the AMOS Shipdex Data Manager, enabling us to validate that our maintenance manuals are in compliance with the Shipdex protocol,” said Henrik Striboldt, Business Development Manager, MAN Diesel & Turbo. “SpecTec has more than 50% of the world shipping market using AMOS and we wanted to expand our solutions offering to our customers and to reduce their operation cost related to documentation,” said Marco Vatteroni, ILS Manager of SpecTec Group.

The three companies Corena, SpecTec Group and Intership Navigation announced the first purchase of the AMOS Shipdex supplied by SpecTec Group and powered by Corena. The AMOS Shipdex Suite is for the production, management, use and validation of technical information developed in accordance with the Shipdex Protocol. It is an integrated suite of software tools giving ship owners and operators the benefits of major cost savings in terms of better data quality and improved electronic use. The Shipdex Protocol contains a set of business rules, especially designed for the shipping community, specifying how this industry shall implement the S1000D specification for the production and management of technical publications.

The 4th Shipdex Conference took place at the MAN Diesel PrimeServ Academy in Augsburg, Germany on Feb. 16, where the Shipdex protocol was declared ready and available for use. Shipdex (Ship Data Exchange) is international business rules (protocol) -based and fully compliant with S1000D, developed to standardize the exchange of electronic technical data within the shipping community. The Shipdex protocol aims to ensure a high quality of technical and logistical data and simplify the exchange of data within the industry. For application service providers, Shipdex is a basic specification for implementing data interfaces from technical manual solutions to maintenance and purchase or any fully fledged ERP systems.

SpecTec, world supplier of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems to the shipping industry, is the author of Shipdex. Shipdex is an exchange protocol for the digital documentation that is based on the AIA/ASD/ATA S1000D standard. Corena is a world supplier of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf products managing the production, publishing, distribution, and use of technical documentation for complex equipment. In addition to making its core product, Life*S1000D, Shipdex compliant, Corena will develop additional Shipdex modules for manufacturers, ship owners and ship operators. The Shipdex modules will be marketed by SpecTec as part of the AMOS Business Suite for the shipping industry. “This is an important market break entrance for Corena.