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Franken Appointed

Service Manager At

SWDiesel Gulf

Onno Franken has been named the new service manager for SWDie- sel Gulf, Inc. of Harvey, La., a mem- ber of the Stork-Werkspoor Diesel

Group. He has more than 10 years of experience in inspection, technical support, and repairs on the compa- ny's engines. This experience is now available to all users of Stork diesel in the U.S.

FINCANTIERI IS

SHIPEEPAIRS & CONVERSIONS 20 graving docks for ships up to 400,000 tdw, 8 floating docks for ships up to 160,000 tdw, 13 km of repair berths and the frontage of the repair yards around the Italian coastline: the resources of Finoantieri's Shiprepairing Division are conveniently situated along the main and busiest Mediterranean shipping routes.

YARDS FOR SHIP REPAIR: • A.T.S.M. - TRIESTE YARD

Tel. (0) 40 7391 - Tlx 460122 FINCAT I • C.N.O.M.V. - VENEZIA YARD

Tel. (0) 41 798511 - Tlx 410255 FDJCVE I • TARANTO YARD

Tel (0) 99 407134 - Tlx 860020 FINCTA I • PALERMO YARD - Tel. (0) 91 546488-545288

Tlx 720674, 910041 FDJCPA I • S.E.B.M. - NAPOLI YARD

Tel. (0) 81 7858111 - Tlx 710040 FINCNA I • 0.A.R.N. - GEN0VA YARD

Tel. (0) 10 283801 - Tlx 270090 FOJCOR I • M.G.N. WORKS

Tel. (0) 10 283811 - Tlx 270370 FINCMG I • LIVORM) YARD

Tel. (0) 586 34121 - Tlx 500071 FINCLII (ZFinCAnTIERI

Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A.

SHIP REPAIRING DIVISION

Via Cipro, 11 Genova/Italy Tel. (0) 10 59951

Tlx 270102 FINCGE I

ELECTRONICS

UPDATE

Siemens Offers Cost-Effective

Solutions In Automation Systems —Free Literature Available—

Circle 158 on Reader Service Card

Siemens Energy & Automation,

Inc., Power Engineering Marketing

Division, is developing new cost- effective methods of ship control to concentrate control on the bridge and reduce the size of the crew required.

One development from Siemens is the SINEC HI industrial bus, which serves to link the automation sys- tems of a vessel to each other and with a combined central control sta- tion/bridge control center in such a way that the systems remain unaf- fected by a fault in another system.

For central operation and moni- toring tasks, the SIGOS 41 (Siemens

Graphic Operating and Supervising

System) is tied into the industrial bus. Up to eight video display termi- nals with color graphics capability can function in multi-terminal oper- ation.

All monitoring, open and closed- loop control systems are configured autonomously and have their own operation and monitoring possibili- ties. The bus system and linked units insure: simple monitoring, op- eration and control; flexible adjust- ment to changing conditions; high system availability; continuation of automatic operation, even if central control system fails; and continua- tion of automatic operation, even if a bus fault occurs.

Siemens, which has provided ma- rine automation systems for more than 1,400 ships worldwide, has supplied equipment to U.S. Lines,

Lykes Brothers, Sea-Land Services and Bay Shipbuilding. In addition, the company has supplied the PTO generators for three Navy T-AOs under construction at Pennsylvania

Shipbuilding and alternators for two T-AGSs being built at Bethle- hem Steel.

Siemens is offering a free color brochure on their SINEC HI indus- trial bus. The color publication de- tails the features of the system and contains two schematic drawings of an automation network linked via the Siemens industrial bus. For a free copy,

Circle 98 on Reader Service Card

Automation System linked via

SIMATIC®

Control open/closed loop | Interlace i

SIMAC®

Marine Computer

Free Literature Offered

On The GPS Core Module

From Sperry Corporation

Sperry Corporation of Charlottes- ville, Va., has recently made avail- able literature on the Sperry GPS

Core Module the company has de- signed and manufactured specifical- ly for the marine environment.

The Sperry GPS Core Module is a single-channel, C/A Code, se- quenced receiver, with position cal- culation accuracy to 30M. Latitude, longitude and GMT are available every two seconds on either of two

RS232 Ports.

The Core Module can be directly connected to Sperry Satnav's or

Sperry PCs (or IBM compatible).

Optional interfaces range from sim- ple navigators to integrated sys- tems.

Owners of one of the following satellite navigators will be inter- ested to know that Sperry can up- grade your existing set to a full

Global Positioning System receiver:

Sperry 501TR/GPS; Sperry

SRN501; Sperry ESZ4000; and

SAL4000.

The Sperry GPS Core Module enables the reception and naviga- tion computations from both the

Transit and GPS satellites to be dis- played on your existing system dis- play.

During the transition from Tran- sit to GPS, the 501 TR/GPS will automatically select the best fix source and continue to provide you with total navigation data with no need for time-consuming switching or input coding. In GPS mode, the 501's format will provide continuous course readout and bottom speed at any depth.

When GPS is available, the Sat- nav display shows GPS in lieu of "DRT" (dead reckoning time). Posi- tion updates then occur every two seconds with a smoothed display update every 10 seconds, completely independent of heading or speed input errors. Navigation calcula- tions such as CMG/SMG/SET/

DRIFT, and waypoints are virtually real-time information.

New Transit Satnav positions will continue to update and the "alert" page is updated as normal. When less than 3 GPS satellites are avail- able, the display automatically rev- erts to "Transit" Satnav mode.

Dead reckoning by log and gyro inputs then updates position infor- mation, rather than relying on inac- curate extrapolations of clock error using information from only two

GPS satellites.

An alternative method to display

LAT/LONG/TIME/SMG is to con- nect one of the GPS Core Module's

RS232 outputs to a Sperry or com- patible PC display units. With this method of display the navigator has many powerful uses for the GPS 92 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News