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Dynamic Positioning Assurance

DP Gap Analysis

Review of DP documentation against the instrument that governs each document
Normative anchor
IMCA M 166 Rev 3 §2.6 · §2.7 for FMEA; M 190 §5.10.1 for trials; M 220 Rev 3.0 for operational state documents
Answers to
Company DP Authority
Charging unit
Project
Primary output
Gap analysis report with A/B/C categorisation

The DP system is described by a stack of documents, and each answers to a different instrument. This scope reads them against those instruments and returns what is missing, what is stated but not substantiated, and what contradicts something else in the stack. Whoever produced them — another consultancy, the yard, an OEM or a previous owner — the question is the same: can you rely on this in front of an audit.

In scope

  • FMEA and FMECA against IMCA M 166 Rev 3 §2.6 and §2.7 — coverage of the analysis, and whether the Worst Case Failure it declares is substantiated.
  • Trials reports against IMCA M 190 §5.10.1 — whether each test carries an acceptance criterion and an observed result, or only a tick.
  • Capability plots and footprints — whether the environmental assumptions match the vessel as it is configured today.
  • CAM, TAM, ASOG and WSOG against IMCA M 220 Rev 3.0, including traceability back to the failure the FMEA declares as worst case.
  • DP operational procedures, checklists and the vessel-specific DP manual.
  • System configuration against the FMEA in force — the most common gap, because the vessel changes and the analysis does not.
  • Operational planning documentation, including SIMOPS where it applies.
  • Findings categorised A, B or C, each returned as a pair: the literal citation from the document, and the analysis of why it does not meet the requirement.
  • A stated conclusion on fitness — whether the documentation can be relied on as it stands.

Not in scope

  • Producing or rewriting the deliverable. If a document is unfit, the remedy is bought as the underlying scope — and by a different team.
  • Correcting or editing the reviewed document in place.
  • Engineering the corrective action for the gaps found.
  • Any review of a document produced by Orbis Polaris. We never review our own work — see the independence note.

Declared so the conversation happens before the campaign, not in the middle of it.

Deliverables

What you receive

  1. Gap analysis report, one entry per finding, each carrying the literal citation, the analysis and the A/B/C category.
  2. Quantified summary by category and by document reviewed.
  3. Fitness conclusion per document and for the stack as a whole.
  4. Remediation plan with the action required and the period for each.
  5. Detailed Service Report — consultative and confidential to the owner.
Scoping

What drives the effort

These move the size of the campaign. None of them moves the standard it is measured against.

These drive effort, not price. Pricing is quoted after the specification call, together with the documents we will need from you.

Short scope, immediate value, and no attendance on board — the lowest-friction point of entry in the catalogue.

Independence. A conflict declaration is mandatory before this scope opens. The team that writes a document never audits it. Where we have developed a procedure, a manual or a management system for a vessel, we will not later audit, review or verify that same document for that same vessel — the client chooses one role or the other, per vessel, and we say which one we are holding before the scope opens.

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What usually goes with it

Next step

DP Gap Analysis — let's scope it against your vessel.

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