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pneumatic machine for many years, but If you are a container operator, for exam- a cylinder liner on a two-stroke engine up to 90% in cleaning time (depending we realized that some customers have a ple, you don’t necessarily want to share in about one hour. This is a valuable tool on the part). We also offer our own range problem with air supply, and some have your data. We invite customers to keep to help minimize lube oil consumption of cleaning chemicals, and together, re- found the pneumatic machine to be too their data, but we are happy to help them while effectively managing corrosion ally it comes back to what we know best: noisy; a pneumatic machine is much with it. For us, it (data management) and wear rate. It is a valuable tool also in engine care.

noisier than an electric machine. We is not yet a big thing but it is growing preparing for dry docking the ship, as it also saw the need to lower the barrier to quicikly. We’re focused now on collect- can help you to determine if you need to Investment is obviously a point of learn how to do cylinder honing. So we ing and understanding the data. replace or hone cylinder liners. On a two strategy at Chris Marine: how would decided to make it electric to make it si- stroke engine, you’re talking about an you describe the overall strategy?

lent. Then we needed to ensure uniform Looking at your suite of data collec- eight ton cylinder liner, and just the cost We invest a lot of money in becom- quality and we needed measuring equip- tion products, what is leading the way of transporting them can be signi? cant. ing a learning organization. We have an ment to verify that the surface is good, so at Chris Marine? This simple tool gives insight on the cyl- impressive R&D department, and im- we developed the equipment. Then we For performance monitoring we inder liner condition before you open the pressive sales organization which actu- combined everything into an electroni- have the Lemag segment, including the cylinder cover. ally acts more as advisors, staying close cally controlled machine that guides you electronic cylinder indicator, a portable to our customers. through the honing process, telling you device which measures the cylinder pres- As we walked through the shop I see which stones to use and how to use them. sure. With this you can detect a problem that you have a new cleaning segment What one technology, in your mind,

So it is a complete package that allows in the cylinder, and it can be used to of products to offer. Can you provide has been most transformational for the customer to start the process easily, balance the cylinders. For vessel perfor- insight on this product line develop- the company?

and complete the job with good quality. mance we have the Lemag Shaftpower ment and rationale? The development of our liner diam- and Lemag Speat systems. Shaftpower is Our cleaning segment started when eter measuring tool was a big jump for

You mentioned that on the four stroke measuring the torque and power of the we started selling equipment to work- us, our initiative to do something com- engines that cylinder honing is a ‘bot- propeller shaft, and a simple analysis can shops. We realized that there was a tre- pletely new and our move into the condi- tleneck.’ What exactly did you mean? help determine if you have a propeller is- mendous amount of time cleaning parts, tion based monitoring area. We quickly For a 4 stroke engine, a 32/46 bore 4 sue or a hull cleaning issue. When you so about ? ve years ago we decided to learned that this would be an important stroke, the normal honing time was two combine it with vessel speed and fuel offer cleaning solutions for them, our part of our future, and it led to the Lemag hours for a skilled operators. We were consumption, you can draw even more ultrasonic cleaning range. We also offer acquisition. I’m sure you are going to see able to bring that down to one hour, and conclusions on a vessel, and throughout a spray washing range for really dirty more products from the Chris Marine

I’m sure that the quality is improved, a ? eet. parts that provide an initial wash before Group into this segment. If we hadn’t too, with the electronic control. This We also have a liner diameter measur- it goes into the ultrasonic machine. The taken that one step, I don’t believe that makes it attractive for our customers to ing tool, making it possible to measure big saving really is time, as you can save we would be the company we are today.

continue honing their cylinder liners in- stead of simply replacing them.

There are many technical trends that drive your business. What do you see as the de? ning trends in this regard?

Basically all of our customers want to move from hourly based maintenance to condition based maintenance, so any type of equipment that supports condi- tion based maintenance has a good fu- ture, and that’s why we will continue launching products into this segment. The trend is you have to ? rst have the monitoring mechanism in place be- fore you do the maintenance. So any maintenance equipment supplier has to develop monitoring equipment as well, developing services around it.

Monitoring also raises a lot of ques- tions that demand analysis. We increas- ingly see our customers asking us how to interpret the data.

That’s a good point. In reality, the digitization trend comes with promise and peril. When you look at the digi- tization trend, what do you see as the promise and peril?

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