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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Partnership Provides Innovative

Maintenance Management

Seaworthy Systems, Inc. and Decision

Dynamics, Inc. have announced a part- nership whereby Seaworthy will market and support SeaStar, a comprehensive solution for shipboard maintenance management. SeaStar is the result of a joint venture between Seaworthy and

Decision Dynamics that combines Sea- worthy's extensive knowledge of ship operations and marine engineering expertise with DynaStar 2000 computer- ized maintenance management system from Decision Dynamics.

SeaStar is designed to enable ship owners and operators to make informed and cost-effective strategic and opera- tional decisions including spare parts inventory and machine preventive main- tenance schedule optimization. Seawor- thy offers each SeaStar customer a com- plete spectrum of associated mainte- nance engineering services on a turnkey or individual basis including: mainte- nance and inventory database develop-

All the boats in the Whitbread Around the World Race 1997/98 have chosen

Inmarsat terminals from Nera to keep in touch with the rest of the world du- ring this extremely tough regatta.

Nera's well-tested Saturn B and

Saturn C terminals ensure the participants standard phone connecti- ons, fax, e-mail and video recording transmission.

By the end of 1997 Nera had delivered nearly 2 000 B Marine ter- minals, which represents a market share of more than 40 percent.

During the autumn of 1997, Nera introduced a new satellite station which is well suited for small crafts and pleasure boats, but also ideal as

All Nera Inmarsat terminals are at the cutting edge of operational safety and connection quality.

Nera are the world's leading supplier of Inmarsat stations, with a worldwide service network of subsi- diaries and agents. relief or back-up for larger commerci- al vessels or passenger ships. The

Nera WorldPhone Marine is small, light, easy to use and install, and abo- ve all, affordable.

Nera Satcom AS

P.O. Box 91, N-1375 Billingstad, Norway

Tel: +47 67 24 47 00, Fax: +47 67 24 46 21

Homepage: http://www.nera.no

OFFICIAL SUPPLIER OF

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

EQUIPMENT

NERR

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Changing the way you communicate

Circle 277 on Reader Service Card ment; systems installations; training; hardware configuration and supply; and on-line support. "The SeaStar maintenance manage- ment system is very flexible and can be customized to address operator specifi- cations for large and small fleets of all types of vessels. The addition of SeaSt- ar to our spectrum of products and ser- vices extends our ability to provide comprehensive shipboard maintenance engineering software and systems sup- port in order to achieve individual cus- tomer maintenance goals," said Thomas

J. Pakula, executive vice president of

Seaworthy.

With SeaStar, customers manage the entire range of ship maintenance requirements. SeaStar is designed for today's cost competitive operating envi- ronment and includes a comprehensive maintenance module, as well as invento- ry, work order, and purchasing modules and interfaces. The program allows users to implement or streamline pre- ventive maintenance requirements through a variety of user initiated work orders.

The system is ODBC compliant, allowing it to interface with other sys- tems and various data formats; it is also

Y2K compliant.

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Ship To Shore Messaging

For Windows

A new fully-integrated 'Ship to Shore for Windows' communications package has been launched by GN Comtext Ltd.

To be marketed under the brand identity

STSWin, the new electronic messaging system has been developed by GN

Comtext's specialist Shipping Business

Unit (SBU), which was awarded full

IS09002 quality accreditation earlier this year.

STSWin is designed to handle varied information such as stowage plans, accounting records, operational and maintenance data as well as ordinary electronic mail messages. Messages cre- ated off-line can be addressed as telex, fax or e-mail and can be prepared and sent in batches once or twice a day to ensure the most economic use of satel- lite time.

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AFT Pipe Flow Software

Chosen For Application

CH2M-Hill has adopted the pipe flow modeling software for process pipe modeling from Applied Flow Technolo- gy Corp. (AFT), on a firmwide basis.

CH2M-Hill originally purchased multi- ple licenses of AFT Fathom and AFT

Arrow for Windows in 1997 for use at

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