It really needs to start with company culture and whether the technical manager is just a person in a cubicle looking at numbers or if they actually have a mandate for proper fleet maintenance.
It can work. When I was with Transocean we’d receive technical bulletins from the OEM of equipment we had on the ship, in the same way as safety quick-share alerts from sister-ships. Generally it came through the shoreside technical department who reviewed it and identified which ships in the fleet it was relevant for. If it was urgent it came out as a Quick Share email style blast first. To get all crew’s it would become a check-off item in a separate management system that would stay open until everyone certified they read it. If it was problem that could occur over time, possibly in the future, then it became a recurring maintenance item in the CMMS that would enter your queue year after year. Or would be added to specific CMMS maintenance plans as an additional step.
But that all depended on a continued relationship between the company and the OEMs, the shipyard, the fleet.
Did the shipyard know about this quality issue with the wire label location being too close to the ferrules? Was it a QC issue only on the Dali, or on other vessels built there at that time, or by that particular electrical sub-contractor? If it was discovered did the yard publish a technical bulletin?
There are many ways bulletins can go unseen, but if the ships technical manager isn’t aware then it’s unlikely to get disseminated across crews unless there is a robust system in place for doing so.
