SFI Group System
The SFI Group System is a standard classification and coding system that breaks a ship down into a hierarchy of functional groups — main groups, groups and sub-groups covering every system, component and cost account on board. It gives ship managers a common numeric language for organising technical data, maintenance, procurement and cost control.
Widely adopted across ship management, SFI codes tie together the Planned Maintenance System, spare-parts catalogue, procurement and accounting: a pump, its maintenance jobs, its spares and its costs all share the same SFI code, so information can be aggregated consistently across a vessel or a whole fleet. Developed in Norway, it remains the de-facto standard for structuring a ship's technical and cost data.
Without a common code, a ship's maintenance, spares, procurement and cost data live in separate silos that can't be compared. SFI gives every system one identity across all of them — so a manager can see the total cost of a piece of machinery, benchmark it across sister vessels, and structure the PMS and catalogue consistently. It is the quiet backbone of organised ship management.
What is the SFI system used for?
Coding a ship's systems and components so maintenance, spares, procurement and costs can be organised and aggregated under a common structure.
Where does SFI coding appear?
In the PMS, the spare-parts catalogue, purchase requisitions and the cost accounts — all linked by the same codes.