DeepBlue Rounds brings engine-room and deck checks to the crew’s phone and into the planned maintenance system

DeepBlue, the modular yacht management platform used on more than 500 yachts, today introduces DeepBlue Rounds. Rounds turns the regular walk through the engine room, deck or safety equipment into a structured, scheduled routine. Crew take readings and complete maintenance jobs on their phones or tablets, at the equipment, and each value goes directly into that equipment’s history rather than onto a sheet to be typed up later.

“Rounds is one of the features clients have asked us for most often. Most yachts already walk rounds; what changes is who records the reading and when,” said Maks Obelšer, CPO at DeepBlue. “With Rounds on the phone, the people who walk the round are the ones who record it, and what they record lands in the same system the chief engineer plans maintenance from and the management company reviews.”

On yachts already using DeepBlue, readings were grouped and entered on desktop, but the walk itself was not structured: the order of the steps and what to check at each one. Rounds adds that structure. A round is defined once on desktop, with its steps chosen from the vessel’s equipment register and set in order. Each step is a piece of equipment, not a line on a form: either a reading, with its unit and instruction, or an existing planned maintenance job with its description and history.

Once published, the round is locked. Any change becomes a new revision, so every completed round shows which version was followed. When equipment changes, for example at a refit, a new revision follows it, while the readings stay stored against the same equipment, so its history carries on unbroken.

Each round is carried out in the DeepBlue Mobile app, included with every licence. Crew see their rounds listed with status, due date and the assigned crew positions, and work through each step at the equipment, attaching photos and comments to the reading they belong to. Setting rounds up stays on desktop; filling them in moves to the phone.

How Rounds works

Scheduling: rounds assigned to crew positions and run on demand, on a rolling interval or to a fixed calendar, with reminders
At the equipment: the last ten readings shown beside the input, and a running-hours reading lower than the previous one rejected at entry
Jobs along the way: planned maintenance jobs completed as steps of the round, with the task’s job history in view and spare parts used recorded, and one-off jobs raised against any equipment, either immediately or scheduled for later
Records and reports: readings saved to the equipment’s history and logbook, a final review before the round is closed, and a step-by-step report for every completed round, exportable as a PDF.

The same approach works beyond the engine room, with deck and safety teams running their own rounds.

“A maintenance plan is only as good as the readings behind it,” adds Obelšer. “Rounds means those readings come from the equipment, not from someone’s notes. Because every step is a real piece of equipment from the vessel’s register, the engineer sees its last values while entering the new one, and anything unusual is noticed at the gauge rather than later at a desk.”

Engineers get one walk that covers readings and maintenance jobs in a set order. Captains can see which rounds are current and which are overdue, and management companies have a dated record of what was checked, when, by which rank and against which revision, which they can filter and export.

DeepBlue Rounds will be demonstrated at METSTRADE 2026 on Stand 08.371. For more information or a demo, also visit http://deepblue.app/.

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