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Worldwide Support: The ABB Ability dashboard, where engineers provide remote diagnostics, maintenance support and monitoring for a variety of ship types on the high seas.

be necessary. verters, motors, couplings and gears and Hybrid Nwbie transformer, making installation much offers maintenance, management and Avoiding sending a service engineer cheaper and simpler.” An “active recti-

System Integrators big data decision support from services has been accomplished by crew train- ? er” might also allow the reclaiming to

While Siemens offers the Internet of like SISHIP EcoMain or products like ing, digital monitoring via interfaced the ship’s grid of energy from the pro-

Things and monitors its own battery sys- SISHIP EcoProp hybrid propulsion or electronic tags (by ship’s crews) and peller. A NES hybrid drive featuring tems as part of the energy management all-electric BlueDrive PlusC frequency by remote operations and maintenance a battery is understood to be open to system it offers, most diesel-electric converters. support. Another system integrator that condition-monitoring from shore using hybrid propulsion systems installed by Importantly, however, maintenance seems to have its own hybrid drive and a system called RAS, or Remote Assis-

Siemens Marine are not ? tted with large courses on diesel-electric generators are marine battery solution and remote sup- tance System. While NES did not return marine battery modules (a new thing) offered ship technicians. port is Norwegian Electric Systems AS, our queries, a battery solution provider and are instead of a type where four to Prior to its 2011 launch of the IAS 400 formerly Havyard Electric. The decade- gave us the NES reference, a suggestion, six diesel engines power electric genera- and Web-based Teleservice centered on old out? t offers a switchboard-free solu- perhaps, of another partnership akin to tors that turn a ship’s propellers via a fre- the popular SIMATEC S7 automation tion for ship’s power and a hybrid die- those Siemens and ABB have forged quency converter. model, Siemens had also for years of- sel-electric drive solution that requires with their energy storage providers. NES

These hybrid drives are quiet, their fered redundant automation and diag- one switchboard for each liquid-cooled marketing material says it offers solu- diesel engines aren’t yoked to the pro- nostics for all ship’s applications. Still, Quadro Drive frequency converter (to- tions “you can afford” and “(remote) peller, and they’ve now been around on on-site service engineers have been de thruster) solution. “The (trademark) access to the ship’s propulsion system offshore supply vessels since the mid- rigueur at Siemens Marine in Norway, Quadro Drive frequency converter is in a matter of minutes”. A photo shows 1990’s. They’re also more complicated and how much this will change in “the specially designed for ship installations a company man with a laptop “on loca- with more automation and electrical age of digitalization” or what reliance and sets the standard of next generation tion” and looking “remote” while ser- circuitry to monitor. So, Siemens offers there’ll be on electric generator training propulsion converters,” NES asserts, vicing a client in Africa. While Siemens its own integrated automation of con- for crews isn’t easy to foresee. adding, “Quadro Drive requires no large automation solution was (perhaps still 44 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MAY 2017

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