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Conning display is part of the main control bridge and displays, apart from all the relevant navigation data, selected data from the ship’s automa- tion system. The C2/Operations room is fitted with a customized Situa- tional Awareness Display which shares all charts, targets and move- ments with the Integrated Bridge

System.

K-Master: The Future of Bridge Operation

Kongsberg Maritime unveiled a new focus for its offshore aft bridge workstation during SMM 2010. The

K-Master platform is now available as a forward looking bridge, initially for luxury vessels, enabling skippers and crew to navigate and maneuver from a single seated workstation, with all relevant systems, such as propulsion control, chart radar and conning display, at their finger tips. “K-Master was originally conceived as an intuitive, safety and efficiency enhancing control solution for more complex offshore operations such as anchor handling,” said Roy Larsen,

Marketing Manager, Kongsberg Mar- itime. “However, the concept of a seated operator with all systems on- hand naturally transfers to other ap- plications, so our engineers have re-designed K-Master to make it suit- able for forward bridge operations, and at SMM we are showing the so- lution we have created for use aboard luxury vessels.”

K-Master’s touch-screen operation ensures that all control and data is within easy reach of the sitting oper- ator. It was introduced to the market at Nor-Shipping in June 2009 and can include a wide variety of sub-sys- tems including Dynamic Positioning, independent DP joystick, thruster control, machinery automation and cargo control, chart radar and con- ning display, and bridge auxiliaries.

With K-Master as the primary navi- gation and maneuvering workstation, luxury vessel builders now have the opportunity to completely re-imagine the integrated bridge system. This is especially important in the supery- acht and megayacht markets, where style and individuality are high on the owner’s wish list. K-Master is based on cutting-edge human factors and ergonomics research carried out by

Kongsberg Maritime over the course of several years, with the end result offering safety and operational im- provements, leading to improved ef- ficiency and fewer operator errors. www.kongsberg.com