Education · Vessels · Import

Import your equipment and parts.

Don't build your libraries by hand. Upload a spec sheet, a manual, or an inventory spreadsheet, and MBN reads it into your Equipment and Parts libraries, with opening stock, in minutes.

Goal

Build your equipment and parts libraries in one pass, from a document.

Before you start

An approved vessel organization, and a spec sheet, manual, or inventory file (PDF, image, .xlsx, or .csv).

Time

About 5 minutes.

Version

Reflects Import (List Assistant), live August 2026 (app v1.39).

01

Open Import

From your Equipment library, choose Import. It's the fast way to build both libraries at once, instead of adding items one by one.

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The Import option on the vessel's Equipment library.

02

Upload your document

Drop in a spec sheet or manual (a PDF or a photo), or an inventory spreadsheet (.xlsx or .csv). One page or a hundred, MBN reads the whole thing.

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Uploading a spec sheet or spreadsheet to the import screen.

03

MBN reads it into a tree

The engine extracts your equipment with their parts nested underneath, the way they actually relate. Nothing is saved yet: the parse just proposes what it found, for you to check.

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The parsed result: equipment with parts nested, ready to review.

04

Review and curate

Tick what to keep, fix anything, fill any required fields, and set opening stock where you want it. You stay in control: nothing is written until you confirm, and it never invents a value.

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Curating the parsed equipment and parts before creating them.

05

Create your libraries

Confirm, and MBN writes it all at once: your equipment, each part linked to the equipment it belongs to, and any part you gave a unit and quantity lands already tracked, with its opening count on the record.

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The created Equipment and Parts libraries after an import.

What happens next

Your libraries are built. Attach manuals to your equipment so they travel into tenders, start tracking your spares, or raise your first tender against what you just imported.

Bring your list in

Log in and open your Equipment library to import. New to MBN? Request free access first.