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Autoship Provides Total

Solution

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Autoship Systems Corp.

The Autoship Systems' software is designed to provide vessel designers and builders a total

CAD/CAM solution from initial hull design to shell plate curving and formation. The Autoship suite of products includes: •Autohydro 5.0 (due for early 1998), which will allow for advanced damage/flood simula- tion, advanced testing options able to handle Estonia Resolution 14 rules, better user interface and enhanced flexibility; •Autoplate 7.0, which arrived earlier this year, which generates shell expansion drawings, a choice of plate expansion methods, full fabrication information and a clas- sification scheme to organize stock and plates. Output from Autoplate is available to a designer's favorite

CAD system through extensive use of DXF. Autoplate 7.0 is also able to handle plates with any number of sides; •Autoship 7.0, which also arrived earlier this year, which allows open GL rendering, which is faster and better than the previous system. It also offers improved

Autohydro output, and puts no limits on numbers of objects. A new, built-in surface match replaces the separate Automatch program.

Autoship also offers the

Autoload stability program (see related story on next page), which is used onboard ships for monitor- ing ship stability. Based on

Autohydro, output from which has been approved by DNV, and is accepted by the U.S. and

Canadian Coast Guards, ABS and other official bodies.

For more information from Autoship

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ABS Makes Move Toward

Risk And Reliability

Standardization

ABS will release its proposed classification rules governing machinery and systems. "ABS is

December, 1997 41 committed to providing the marine industry with the most techinically advanced, commercially oriented and easy to use standards for the enhancement of maritime safety," said Robert D. Somerville, ABS president. "The new ABS Proposed

Machinery Rules are the first step toward applying leading edge, risk and reliability-based technology to a vessel's operating plant."

The new proposals include a com- plete reassessment of the existing

Machinery Rules with respect to their applicability, clarity, ease of use and intent. Associated efforts have been expended on a complete modernization and restatement of the ABS Rule for refrigerated ves- sels, machinery and systems, and in the development of new stan- dards for redundant propulsion.

The ABS Proposed Machinery

Rules also contain Human Factor

Engineering considerations.

Human reliability techniques have been identified as part of a risk- based approach to safety.

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Passenger ships and ferries are connected with ports, coasts and continents by timetables that are accurate down to the last minute.

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Under such circumstances the reliability of the propulsion plant takes on particular importance.

MAN B&W four-stroke Diesel engines have been proving their reliability either as straightforward

Diesel propulsion or Diesel-elec- tric propulsion plant on board famous cruise liners and ferries.

With its comprehensive engine programme and the lowest heavy fuel consumption rate ever reached, MAN B&W is able to supply the ideal propulsion concept for every ship.

MAN B&W Diesel, Stadtbachstr. 1, D-86153 Augsburg, Telephone (-821) 32 20

MAN B&W Diesel, Inc., 17 State Street, New York, NY 10004, Telephone (212) 2 69-0980

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