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nical Office was opened in Manila,

Philippines, to facilitate plan re- view and provide closer technical dialogue with the growing marine industry in that part of the world.

Reporting on the ABS group of wholly owned subsidiaries, Mr.

Young said that ABS Computers,

Inc., has been expanding as a computer service bureau, and now provides data processing service to many organizations. "We are optimistic about ABSCOMP's po- tential in this direction," Mr.

Young added, "and we have in- creased our information storage and printing capacity to accom- modate future expected demands from the ABS group of companies and throughout the industry.

Mr. Young said that ABS

Worldwide Technical Services,

Inc., is engaged in third-party quality assurance and certifica- tion services covering materials and machinery components for portal cranes, drilling equipment, chemical plants, oil refineries, and hydroelectric turbines located in

Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America.

Mr. Young reported that a ma- jor current project of EXAM

Company involves X-ray inspec- tion of field welds in 440 miles of the Dome Pipeline. The Dome line runs from Calgary, Canada into Eastern United States, and

EXAM is monitoring the section east of the Mississippi River. Ad- ditional EXAM assignments in- clude X-ray inspection of other pipeline sections located primarily in Central and North Central

United States.

APL Team To Analyze

Systems Controlling

Steam Plants On Ships

The Maritime Administration has awarded a cost-shared reim- bursable no-fee contract in the amount of $295,800 to American

President Lines, Inc., 601 Califor- nia Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94108, to analyze the character- istics of systems used to control steam propulsion plants on ships of the U.S. merchant marine. The overall objective of this work is to develop a systematic method- ology for evaluating the control and monitoring equipment and re- lated operating procedures aboard steam powered vessels to allow "fail-safe" control of the propul- sion plant from a centrally lo- cated site. The team assembled to conduct this work consists of

American President Lines, Inc.,

J.J. Henry Co., Inc., New York,

N.Y., and Systems Control Incor- porated, Palo Alto, Calif.

The project is divided into three phases. The Phase I objec- tive is to isolate the throttle con- trol system problems and po- tential problems which could be experienced by ship operators with current installations as they relate to the throttle and to de- velop engineering recommenda- tions to alleviate identified throt- tle control system weaknesses.

The Phase II objective is to ex-

October 15, 1977 pand the evaluation to include the steam propulsion control sys- tem, account for the effects of those subsystems interfaced with the throttle control system. The

Phase III objective is to use the functional data collected and an- alyzed in Phases I and II to sim- ulate the system in terms of failure modes and effects and to develop specifications for ad- vanced centralized steam propul- sion control systems.

Lockheed Shipbuilding

Names Charles Krummen

Charles A. (Chuck) Krummen has been named director of pro- duction planning and control at

Lockheed Shipbuilding and Con- struction Company, president G.

Graham Whipple announced.

Mr. Krummen's previous as- signments included serving as program manager for production of the Short Range Attack Mis- sile (SRAM) propellant program at Lockheed Propulsion Company,

Redlands, Calif.

An engineering graduate of the

Aeronautical University of Chi- cago, Mr. Krummen has filled a series of manufacturing and pro- gram management posts with air- craft subcontractors in Wichita,

Kan., Aerojet General Corpora- tion in Sacramento, Calif., and

Lockheed.

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