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October 2012www.marinelink.com 49Goltens Wins GL Approval for In-Situ Crankshaft Annealing Goltens said that the Goltens World- wide Group of companies had beenawarded worldwide approval of its repair process for the In-Situ annealing ofmedium speed 4-stroke diesel engine crankshafts. This certification follows a formal review by Germanischer Lloyd of the crankshaft annealing process and re-lated governing documents and proce- dures. The approved procedure is designed to reduce excessive hardness in damaged crankshaft journals through annealing(heat treatment) of the crankshaft with aminimum amount of material removal. The process is specifically targeted at salvaging crankshafts that would oth- erwise be condemned and require re-placement due to the severity of the hardness exceeding engine maker speci- fications. Goltens' experience has demon- strated that this hardness can besignificantly reduced to within acceptable limits and that, after annealing, finish ma- chining can restore the machinery toservice with significantly less loss of crankshaft diameter as well as the avoid- ance of costly shaft/equipment removal and replacement.?This certification is the culmination of years of R&D and successful applica-tions across a wide range of enginemakes and models in the field and in the workshop by our technical teams. Ob- taining Germanischer Lloyd approval is validation that our process is safe, re- peatable and effective in repairing crank- shafts that would otherwise likely have been condemned. Further, the fact that approval covers our global network of stations and not one location demon-strates the value of our investments in consistent tooling and repeatableprocesses? said Paul Friedberg, President of Worldwide Services for Goltens. www.goltens.com Veripos Mobile for Offshore Positioning Veripos, suppliers of GNSS positioning to the offshore industry, introduced a new-generation configurable receiver de- signed to provide integrated mobile solu- tions for a wide range of offshore location and heading applications, theLD4 HDT. Weighing less than 2kg, the compact IP55-rated unit can be config- ured to deliver a robust and accurate heading and any positioning solution pro- vided by Veripos?s range of satellite-de- rived services. Calculating differing positional solutions in addition to GNSSheadings, the system can output both fin- ished and raw data to external equipment and QC software for processing. Using dual GNSS antennas to receive GPS and Glonass L1/L2 signals for sub-sequent computing of robust moving baseline vector/heading RTK fixed solu- tions, the LD4 HDT can typically provide either sub-metre or decimetre accuraciesin addition to precision headings whenreceiving proprietary Veripos Apex and Ultra service corrections.Upgradable for both future GNSS RTK operations and USB and Ethernet com-munications, typical system applicationsinclude back-up to mechanical gyroheading for hydrographic multibeam sur- vey and geophysical vessels and con- struction barges. Others cover support for near-shore survey vessels requiring rapid mobilisation with low space re- quirements in addition to offshore con- struction emplacements involving remote monitoring via radio data telemetry. www.veripos.com SKF Marine ConditionMonitoring Kit SKF has available the SKF Marine Condition Monitoring Kit to carry out re-liable, simplified condition monitoring onboard ships and enables ship operatorsto take a first step towards condition- based maintenance. With the SKF Marine Condition Mon- itoring Kit, even a non-trained user may interpret the results of vibration datameasurements and locate the source ofthe fault in the machinery. The marine- specific software with marine typical equipment models is loaded in the SKFMicrolog Advisor Pro and is preconfig- ured to convert the measured data into an easy-to-understand colour-coded result. E-mail: [email protected] ASC is a marine software developer based in Vancouver, Canada. For over 30 years, ASC has been producing top-notch software design solutions for naval architects and marine engineers around the world. ASC has also been providing world-class load planning systems and load- ing instruments to the marine shipping industry. The line of CAD/CAM software is used for design through to construction of all vessel types. Products include; Autoship (surface modeling), Autohydro (stability & strength calculations) and Autostructure (internal structural design). Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) Suite 1451 ? 409 Granville Street Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6C 1T2 Phone: 604-254-4171 ? Fax: 604-254-5171 Contact: Ross Muirhead, National Sales Manager Contact email: [email protected] ? Website: http://www.autoship.com ZF Marine Transmissions in USCG FRC Vessels ZF Marine announced its involvement with the US Coast Guard FRC project.The USCG vessel Bernard C. Webber, first of the new 154 ft. Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRC), was recently commissioned. ZF Marine provided two ZF 23560C Marine Transmissions for each vessel. With a patrol boat or light duty rating well in excess of 4300 kW @ 2100 rpm, these robust transmissions will support the vital service role of the new FRC vessels. Today, more than 200 US Coast Guard boats and cutters are sailingwith ZF Marine transmissions. www.zf.com MR#10 (42-49):MR Template 10/5/2012 9:32 AM Page 49