Digitalization of the environmental matrix

Abstract: There are a lot of different discharge regulations that ships have to follow but there is no general way to collect this information for the cruise ship companies. One company, Holland American Group, have created a matrix where they have stored all information regarding dispatch regulations, which they collect manually. As regulations have become stricter and more specific for different areas at sea it has caused the matrix to grow vastly, making working with the matrix tedious. The project aims to investigate how the information in the matrix is presented to the user. The ambition is to find alternative ways to work with the matrix to improve efficiency in order to reduce the time it takes to work with it. While also being able to create dispatch schedules for itineraries which prevent non-compliant discharges from the vessels. The problem is to present information in a different manor, today the information lays inside an Excel spreadsheet which has grown significantly and is therefore no longer manageable in its present format. A solution, to create a planning tool which assists crew members who work with planning each itinerary’s dispatches, has been suggested. Two different designs are presented, one with inspiration from apps and another inspired by traditional computer programs. The work process and solutions are based on concepts and theories from large industrial systems and sustainability as the main perspective. Therefore, the solutions are motivated with methods commonly used in creating, developing and maintaining industrial production with the aim to create a new sustainable system from such perspective.