Software company · engine department
MakinaLabs is a software company. We build programs and applications that help marine engineers work more easily on the plant — start, run, and fix — without learning on a live machine.
We make it simple, we make it clear. For every marine engineer.
Software for the engine department, built by a chief engineer who is still at sea.
MakinaLabs builds software for marine engineers. Our programs start from the jobs that fill an engineer's day: taking soundings, writing the noon report, planning a bunkering, keeping the Oil Record Book, and bringing a machine back on line when it misbehaves.
Because the work comes first, the programs follow the way things are really done on board. They are meant for everyone in the department, from cadets and oilers to the chief engineer, and they stay useful whether or not the ship has a connection.
Soundings, fuel figures and reports take up a real part of every watch. We turn that work into one clear routine, so the numbers are worked out the same way each time and are ready when the chief or the office asks for them.
Some lessons are expensive to learn on a live plant. Our Diskarte simulators let engineers start, run and troubleshoot a machine, make their mistakes safely, and see exactly what caused them.
A ship is not an office. Connections drop, time is short and people change over. So we keep our software simple to pick up, and it runs on the phones and computers engineers already have with them.
Five programs are in use today: Tank Chief, Voyage Chief, Cheng Suite and two Diskarte simulators. More engine-room systems will follow as they are ready.
Five programs in use today. These are real screens from the programs. Ship names and other private details are masked; Voyage Chief shows its built-in sample voyage.
Tank sounding and bunkering
Fuel tank management for the engine department. It replaces the sounding workbook with double interpolation, ASTM 54B and tables you can correct yourself.
Why it helps
Noon reports and voyage performance
Offline ship performance and fuel logging for engine department noon reports. It works on Android phones and PC, and syncs to your own server when you reach one.
Why it helps
The all-in-one for the engine office
Voyage Chief and Tank Chief under one shell, with one vessel shared between them. Everything a chief engineer logs and plans sits in a single program.
Why it helps
Diskarte is Tagalog: the quiet skill of finding a way when the plant is not in the book. Our two simulators live inside it, on a 3D engine-room dashboard for Android and Windows. A simulator keeps running when you go Home.
Part of Diskarte
Alfa Laval S 826 · P 605 · Mitsubishi SJ30G · SJ30G HIDENS
Line up the system, start the bowl, work the control panel, fit a gravity disc, and clear faults like a blocked strainer or a failed discharge.
Why it helps
Part of Diskarte
Alfa Laval JWP-26-C80 · AQUA Blue E1 C · Il Seung ISF-80
Make distillate from sea water on jacket-water heat. Pull vacuum, feed the evaporator, bring on heat, and keep salinity and output in the window.
Why it helps
One web code base. Wrapped for the engine office and for the cabin.
Portable Diskarte app. Rail tabs, no page scrolling, plant on a light board inside a dark glass chrome.
Landscape, notch-aware. The plant fills the screen. Everything else pops up. Pinch to zoom.
The simulators on this site are the same programs. Your manuals and company procedures still take priority.
The maker
Chief Engineer. He builds these programs from the plants he runs, so the next watch does not have to learn only by breaking something real.
He currently sails with Golden Union Shipping Co., S.A. These are MakinaLabs programs, not Golden Union products.
