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STAIRS

	Stevedore's
	Terminal
	Analysis
	Information
	Reporting
	System

STAIRS is a separate program to eShiftLog that supports:

	Simple reporting
	User defined reports
	Data extracts (to various popular 3^rd party programs.)
	Locating and highlighting exceptional performance
	Graphing trends for high level analysis and detailed separate analysis of individual performance factors
	Analysis of underlying trend causes
	Drilling down into detailed data to identify performance triggers
	Reviewing of historical eShiftLog data, to provide advise on the best mix of resource assignment

The philosophy has been to include a few highly focused standard reports with a powerful system for the users to view and analyze data on-line.

Visual Data Analysis Assistant

eShiftLog provides a very flexible Data Summary report. Once you select the report, a display of crane usages for the previous day is shown…

Usage / Outage Summary Report – Showing Data

The main points of interest on this screen are:

Tab for selecting the data to display
Tab to see the data
The data display

STAIRS – Expert Adviser

There are many factors that will affect the performance of an individual crane run sequence. Some of these factors are beyond our control such as which vessel is in port and the weather. However, other factors such as the crane(s) and teams to use are within our control.

The fixed factors (those beyond your control) are entered into the Expert Adviser. Expert Adviser will review historical data and identify the best combination of resource assignments that have worked well in the past with the specified combination. Expert Adviser will also display those combinations that have not worked well in the past, and may best be avoided.

An example sample report from the Expert Adviser could read similar to:

ABC – American Big Container ship

Vessel	ABC – American Big Container ship
Number of prior port visits	21
Number of prior crane usages	275
Total crane hours	1,292.5	Hours
Total crane exchanges	33,217	Cntrs
Average crane usage duration	4.7	Hours
Average exchanges per usage	117	Cntrs
Average crane rate	25.7	cph

Summary, Effective variable factors:

Most Effective		Least Effective
Variable factor	Average crane rate	Variable factor	Average crane rate
Crane 1	27.8	Crane 3	22.3
Shift Day	26.2	Crane 4	23.5
Supervisor Sophie	31.5	Supervisor Bruce	22.1
Driver Sam	28.7	Driver Fred	18.7

Notes:

	Crane rates are based on total elapsed time, with NO allowance for any delays at all.
	Crane usages with less than 30 minutes duration have been excluded
	Crane usages with less than 20 exchanges have been excluded

This can also be a helpful tool when it comes time to renegotiate contracts, so you know what vessels work well and what ones you have little room to move on.

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