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www.marinelink.com 69Siemens Wins Order for Two Marine PSVs Siemens won a multimillion dollar con-tract by Leevac Shipyards, LLC to equip two new Aries Marine platform supply vessels (PSV) with its diesel electric pro-pulsion solution. The two 270 ft. PSVs will be outÞ tted with Siemens Blue multi-drive, low-voltage system, which will be designed to improve reliability due to fail-safe features that help the vessel owner lower maintenance costs as well as increase efÞ ciency and opera- tional ease for the vessel and crew. Sie- mens will provide the main generators, main propulsion and thruster motors, switchboards, power management sys-tem and its IAS400 automation system for alarm, monitoring and control func-tions, in addition to a unique, fully inte-grated Siemens electrical FiFi 1 system. Designed by LEEVAC Design Services for Aries and certi Þ ed by ABS, each PSV will be 270 x 56 ft., capable of speeds of more than 14 knots and designed to carry a variety of cargo in below-deck tanks, including large quantities of fuel, water, drilling ß uids, cement or mud as well as casing, drill pipes and tubing in open-decks. The vessels are slated for deliv- ery in September and December 2014 respectively. AVEVA: Integrated Steel- work and 3D Plant DesignImage: AVEVA?s new business paper ? ?Bolting it all together?AVEVA released ?Bolting it all together,? the latest in its series of business papers which discusses how integrating struc-tural steelwork and plant layout design can reduce project cost, risk and delivery time. The paper explores the consider- able business advantage that EPCs and shipbuilders working on plant/offshore projects can gain by using a specialized steelwork application that can be used efÞ ciently within a plant design solution to support close, collaborative working through an entire design and construc-tion project.?Steelwork often accounts for a dispro-portionate level of project risk, rework and overruns in cost and delivery,? said Bruce Douglas, Senior Vice-President, EDS Strategy & Marketing, AVEVA. ?It is common industry practice to sub-contract steel detailing and fabrication to specialized companies, with most plant design solutions not extending to the steelwork design/fabricate/construct workß ow. Communication links are therefore stretched in a process that de-mands close collaboration, resulting in general project inefÞ ciency that can lead to costly rework and program overruns.? The business paper demonstrates the need for EPCs and Shipbuilders to con-sider solutions that enable the develop-ment of steelwork design concurrently with the rest of the layout, in a common 3D model. EfÞ cient parallel develop- ment enables the overall design to meet essential requirements such as ease of MR #4 (66-74).indd 69MR #4 (66-74).indd 694/3/2013 9:35:03 AM4/3/2013 9:35:03 AM

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