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is) Web-based and ABB uses Of? ce 365 way), Singapore (drilling) or Helsinki for maintenance when condition moni- a critical (system-stopping) fault we al- and the Microsoft Azure cloud to access (passenger and cargo) with new centers toring suggests you don’t need it. ways contact the onboard crew and the ship’s power systems, NES says “a ves- understood to be opening in Shanghai, “I went to many digital ship confer- (owner’s) onshore vessel management sel’s satellite communication system” Miami and Genoa Italy later this year. ences and everyone I met said we’re not to at least offer onboard assistance,” will help solve problems anywhere in the A 10 percent fuel savings is said to be being taught this (condition-monitoring says Braastad, as he pulls another ves- world at any time”. possible for using the advice, onboard stuff),” says Nakken. “It needs to be sim- sel, a ? oating producer, onto the giant software and ? eet management Ability ple even for an engineer or a chief engi- dashboard screen. Depending on the

Ability offers. All system integrators say “they neer,” he adds. Siemens in Norway, for deal the customer’s subscription, ABB

Of course, ABB’s claim is also global, dig into the real data” and they appear their part, offer maintenance classes and can go beyond trouble-shooting to offer and we did see the excellent oversight to be doing so, although, it would seem, likely much more. ABB seems to offer preventive feedback using data collected its engineers had of their clients via the marine batteries might require their own all the expertise needed to help crews ? x every three months on all from cool-

Ability Solutions it launched in March separate monitoring. Our email probes problems remotely. NES is known to at ing systems and frequency converters 2017, when “all devices and sensors on the issues batteries might present least send a man to a remote location for to the effects of operations on electrical on everything went to the (MS Azure) for remote diagnostic tools went unan- service help. Perhaps much more. breakers. Even oil system particles in cloud”. Now, rather than sending out a swered. Nor is it clear who, apart from ABB, meanwhile, has 3,000 vessels in an azipod are monitored. That’s a broad service engineer over 48 hours to reach ABB, offers remote alarm monitoring or its client group that appear to use ABB digitalized offering of support to ship one ship, one engineer might manage 10 which have “taken the expertise into an electrical kit and perhaps 150 of these owners owning highly automated hybrid ships from operations centers in Houston algorithm (as, say, Emerson)”, or which are using Ability diagnostics via service drives. Broad digitalized offerings are all (day help), Asker (offshore vessels, Nor- integrators stop short of doing uncalled- centers across the globe. “If we pick up the rave right not.

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