Star IPS and STAR modules
- Planned and corrective maintenance
- Spare parts, inventory and stock counts
- Docking and projects
- Document and certificate management
- QHSE and safety management
- Guarantee and claims handling
- Asset management
PMS database services for
Star IPS.
Database building, data entry, audits and migration, from the equipment makers' own manuals and delivered in the Star IPS import format.
- Full name
- STAR Information and Planning System
- Developer
- Star Information Systems AS (SIS)
- Headquarters
- Trondheim, Norway
- In business since
- 1997
Overview
Star IPS, the STAR Information and Planning System, is a maintenance and asset management system from Star Information Systems (SIS) of Trondheim, Norway, used across ships, offshore vessels and rigs. Its current generation is STAR Suite, now marketed as STAR EAM.
- Owner
- Majority-owned by Norwegian private equity firm Longship
- Current generation
- STAR Suite / STAR EAM, with STAR Explorer and STAR Planner
Origin and history
How Star IPS got here.
- 1997
Star Information Systems has provided software and support for ship and rig management since 1997. In 2003 Helgelandske AS upgraded its fleet to Star IPS, covering component inventories, fleet maintenance, spare parts and ISM document handling, and Solstad Offshore had 50 vessels on the system by 2012.
- 2023
In May 2023 SIS launched STAR Suite, a new web and native platform for its enterprise asset management system and apps. In 2024 it began a pilot of STAR Explorer, the core STAR Suite application for maintenance planning and reporting, with Color Line, and announced a strategic alliance with the Norwegian PMS and ISM vendor Premas.
- 2025
SIS is majority-owned by the private equity firm Longship, and in 2025 it acquired the data-quality company Sharecat. Publicly reported users include Solstad Offshore, BW Offshore and Color Line.
Features
What Star IPS does.
STAR Maintenance and STAR Suite
- Condition- and performance-based maintenance linked to condition monitoring and failure analysis
- Operational modes, breakdown tracking, and work and service requests
- Risk matrix and control of work
- Checklist-based reporting, with a data lake for trends and operating thresholds
- Work orders created automatically from OEM remote monitoring
- Integration with DNV's digital machinery planned maintenance tool for class compliance
- One onboard server per vessel with ship-shore replication
- Mobile apps for stock counts, work orders and consumption, usable online or offline
What we deliver
Your Star IPS data, built from the source.
Component hierarchy, maintenance jobs, intervals and spare parts prepared for import into Star IPS or STAR Suite, review of existing Star IPS data, and migration to or from Star IPS.
- 01
Content taken from the makers' manuals, with the source cited in each job.
- 02
One equipment hierarchy and job standard across your fleet, whatever the software.
- 03
A check of every job against its source before delivery.
- 04
Nothing invented to fill gaps: missing documentation is reported, not guessed.
See also PMS database building, PMS health checks and PMS data migration.
FAQ
Questions about Star IPS work.
Are you a reseller or partner of Star IPS?
No. Norsetech Group is an independent service provider. We do not sell Star IPS; we build, audit and migrate the data that goes into it, in the format Star IPS imports.
Do you need a login to our Star IPS system?
No. We work from exports and from the Star IPS import template, so your live system is not touched.
What do you need from us to start?
The maker instruction manuals and parts lists for the vessel's equipment, the equipment list, and your Star IPS import template or an export of your current data. Where manuals are missing we tell you which equipment is affected rather than filling the gap with generic jobs.
Can you move our data from another PMS into Star IPS, or out of it?
Yes. We extract and clean the data from the current system, map it to the new platform's structure and deliver it in the new platform's import format, with the history carried across.
Sources
- STAR EAM: about (opens in a new tab)
- STAR EAM: home page (opens in a new tab)
- MarineLink: Helgelandske upgrades to Star IPS (2003) (opens in a new tab)
- Maritime Professional: Solstad Offshore invests in Star IPS (opens in a new tab)
- PortNews: STAR Suite launched (2023) (opens in a new tab)
- Maritime Executive: STAR Explorer pilot with Color Line (opens in a new tab)
- Maritime Executive: SIS and Premas alliance (opens in a new tab)
- Container News: SIS acquires Sharecat (opens in a new tab)
- NORWEP: STAR Maintenance (opens in a new tab)
Disclaimer
Star IPS is a trademark of its owner, used on this page only to identify the software. Norsetech Group is an independent service provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or a partner of the maker of Star IPS, and we do not sell, license or support the software itself.
The description of Star IPS on this page is a summary for general reference, compiled from the public sources listed above and checked on 3 November 2026. Products, features, ownership and names change, so it may be incomplete or out of date, and it is not a statement by the software maker. For the current and authoritative description, contact the maker. Nothing here is a warranty or a recommendation of any software.
If anything on this page is inaccurate, write to sales@norsetechgroup.com and we will correct it.