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oices the (battery) power play ? nd a problem here than to ? nd it out in the ? eld,” Perry says. Onboard a vessel, or under factory testing, an orange and yellow meter shows whether a system is being ? red up or whether it’s in shut- down sequence. “There’s nowhere you can’t acquire and monitor data,” Perry says about the factory, installed sys- tems, the production chain and his own supply chain. While his plant will soon have in place the monitors, bar code devices and other tools of cutting-edge, lean production, the storage solutions themselves are all traceable. Barcod- ing and data structures allow PBES to pinpoint the slightest failure to a plant,

Left & Below:

The Battery

The Sherman tank of batteries:

A PBES energy storage system

Below & Right

First orders

Cell modules ready for testing

Photos: William Stoichevski 28 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • APRIL 2017

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