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- Plug and Play Maritime Reporter, Feb 2003 #28
Piikkio Works OY, an company 100 percent Kvaerner Masa Yards, independent maintaining a technical and design owned by advantage in the construction, delivery prides itself on and installation of prefabricated cabins for cruise ships. Bringing the saying "plug and play" to an entirely new level, the company coordinates nearly 150 subcontractors to design, build and deliver on-time, on-budget - up to 6,000 complete suites and staterooms per year.
Piikkio Works is owned by Kvaerner Masa Yards, and perhaps no greater testament to its system is needed than to note that its cabins are used by a host of other cruise ship builders, most notably Germany's Meyer Werft. With Kvaerner Masa Yards now under the Aker Kvaerner umbrella, it would seem that the many Aker yards that build cruise and passenger vessels would take advantage of the Piikkio Works system.
While Piikkio Works recorded a record turnover of more than $100 million in 2001, supporting its operations in Finland and abroad, it anticipates a turnover of approximately $60 million in 2003, with projections for 2004 and beyond quite cloudy, given the current cruise ship new construction hold. However, with its wide use of subcontractors, the manufacturer insists that the immediate effects of such a drop are minimal, though it (and many of its colleagues) would prefer a swift reversal.
Through its 20 years of building and delivering prefabricated units to the major cruise ship builders of the world, Piikkio Works has developed a number of innovations and installation techniques which are geared toward minimizing work for the shipyard. It fabricates its own panels in-house, in standard 900 mm widths, and has a constant eye on methods to bring more of the shipbuilding process out of the shipyard. It's latest innovation, patent-pending, is the Panoramic Cabin.
A View to Thrill Piikkio Work's current line of modular cabins seems the ultimate in ease of installation, rolling onto ships, sans floors, and literally plugging into place. With its new Panoramic Cabin, a system yet to receive typeapproval, the process is taken a step further.
With its new cabin system, the company delivers units that plug into the side of the vessel, literally forming a part of the ship's side structure, complete with windows. The product allows installation of a cabin with one crane lift, and eliminates the need for window installation by the shipyard.
As its name suggests, the cabin offers passengers a fabulous, floor to ceiling, forward and side view of the scenery, an amenity that the manufacturer suggests will allow cruise lines to garner additional revenue.
While the new room does eliminate the balcony, it offers an additional two to four meters in the room, and would seem a natural fit for vessels that cruise in colder environs. Piikkio Works OY is currently working to develop the Panoramic Cabin with a balcony.
The concept was created primarily with the RoPax vessel type in mind, but its applicability to the cruise ship environment quickly became apparent.
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- Stand-Alone Mosaicking Module Introduced Marine Technology, Nov 2013 #59
Imaging Consultants, Inc. (OIC), of Honolulu, Hawaii, introduced the first Stand-Alone Mosaicking Module (SAMM) for forward-look sonar (FLS). SAMM is a plug-and-play add-on to forward look sonar systems that automatically creates mosaics in real time from FLS data. SAMM’s Data Acquisition Features Include:
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- Danelec’s 3G VDR Maritime Reporter, May 2014 #55
valuable shipboard data and eliminates in-port delays for repairs,” said Hans Ottosen, Danelec CEO. Danelec designed the VDR data acquisition unit for easy plug-and-play replacement, with all system programming and configurations stored on a hot-swappable memory card. www.danelec-marine.com (As published
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- Lilaas L01 Control Maritime Reporter, May 2014 #56
Full type approval has been granted to the new generation ‘plug and play’ L01 control lever, opening the way for widespread uptake of the integrated electronic shaft system technology Norwegian supplier Lilaas believes will change the ship control sector. The all-electric L01 has secured type approval from
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- MTR100 '13 SeeByte Marine Technology, Jul 2013 #25
sensor data has been used within numerous military & security exercises, surveys and operations. SeeTrack CoPilot is the world’s most advanced, easy-to-use, plug-and play software that makes piloting any ROV a much simpler task. Through a straightforward and intuitive point and click interface, SeeTrack CoPilot
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- Information: The Real Power Maritime Reporter, Apr 2002 #33
of equipment and systems, from both a payload and cost stance, so testing currently being carried out focuses on, for lack of a better term, "plug and play" capabilities of smaller, faster ships into a network, operating on a squadron concept. While the technology inherent in providing a vessel
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- NautiCast Offers AIS Solution Maritime Reporter, Sep 2002 #38
keyboard to the limited space available in ships bridges today. The X- Pack DS not only promises to spare precious space once installed, its plug and play design ensures that installation times are kept down to a minimum. The X- Pack DS interfaces with existing NMEA compatible equipment and sensors
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- Nera F 5 5 Terminal Gets Inmarsat Type Approval Maritime Reporter, Sep 2003 #44
. The Nera F55 features voice communication and high quality ISDN connections through a compact unit with low power consumption. It is designed as a plug-and-play solution, tailored to the communication needs of medium-sized vessels. Nera F55 employs the latest Inmarsat Fleet satellite platform with
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- MacArtney Launches LUXUS Dropplate Marine Technology, Jun 2014 #55
deployment and handling requirements, make the LUXUS Dropplate an extremely flexible and cost effective solution. The LUXUS Dropplate can be supplied as a plug-and-play solution complete with cameras, lights, controller, cable and winch system. www.macartney.com (As published in the June 2014 edition
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- MTR 100: SeeByte Marine Technology, Jul 2014 #76
data has been used within numerous military & security exercises, surveys and operations. SeeTrack CoPilot is the world’s most advanced, easy-to-use, plug-and play software that makes piloting any ROV a much simpler task. Through a straightforward and intuitive point and click interface, SeeTrack CoPilot
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- There’s an App for That! Marine Technology, Mar 2014 #38
, weather services, task monitoring or flight status monitoring that most GCS have to implement—without having to rebuild the entire GCS. “It’s ‘plug and play’ for GCS development.” Legacy systems can be adapted for UCS, and are then able to take advantage of the many benefits of UCS. This helps to
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- MTR100: VideoRay Marine Technology, Aug 2016 #69
systems, metal thickness gauges, cathodic protection, water quality and radiation measuring devices, and many other underwater tools and sensors. The ROVs’ plug-and-play technology allows users to quickly attach sensors and accessories in the field. VideoRay’s new Mission Specialist Series features modular
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 44frequency datasets and creating/ range laser scanner combining a scan speed of 250 lines per managing vessel ? les. second with 2 mm range resolution, a plug & play solution, and an IP67 marine grade sensor making it the ? rst of its kind DEALS high-accuracy marine grade laser scanner. The lidar sensor
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13After some pondering, I think I can reduce it to this logi- today that is a pointless exercise. It would actually make more cal sequence: sense to buy a plug-in hybrid that is con? gured for methanol It is the carbon. We want zero carbon as soon as possible. 1. IC, but, unfortunately, no such cars are
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12fuels (like corn or sense, they are missing an important point in their determina- sugar cane), the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. tion that a plug-in hybrid is the greenest car, and it applies re- This is based on very simple math. A plant can, at best, convert gardless of the methodology they
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16THE PATH TO ZERO Methanol’s Superstorage Solution Technical inquiries to SRC Group ramped up after it received Approval in Principle (AIP) for a concept which ‘reinvented methanol fuel storage’ on board ships. Delivering the answers has seen technical talk converting into project discussions
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M s the world increasingly HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor becomes a geopolitical New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 quagmire, with Russia’s Awar in the Ukraine soon CEO John C. O’Malley entering year three and disparate
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 36Feature Marine Simulation Pioneering regulatory change Without simulation, opportunities to train on marine evacuation systems are few and far between, basically only Virtual Marine’s impact extends beyond technology de- coming along when the system becomes outdated and velopment. The company has played
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 55Gazelle is banking on its modular solution, which Ortega says should represent a 30% reduced platform cost. “We are targeting 75% less of mooring length compared. So less mooring length, less materials will be used.” Alvaro Ortega, CFO, Gazelle Wind Power All images courtesy Gazelle Offshore Wind Gaze
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 43he world beneath the ocean’s surface remains and extreme environments, including the deepest parts of one of the last frontiers of exploration, where the ocean, venturing into uncharted territories, and discover- the mysteries of the deep beckon to be uncov- ing new species and geological phenomena. ered.
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35JIM MCNEILL: LEADING EARTH’S CITIZEN WARRIORS ACROSS THE SEA By Celia Konowe n the face of intensifying climate change and McNeill, former scientist and internationally renowned associated environmental unknowns, one world British explorer, has more than 36 years of experience travel- explorer has
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 9advanced sensors and effectors, powerful onboard process- payloads, the vehicles being deployed by actors like Ukraine, ing, high endurance, and large payload capacity. Several state Iran, and Hamas are the combat payloads. In many ways, actors are known to have such combat AUVs under develop- we are
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8INSIGHTS SUBSEA DEFENSE SILENT, MOBILE, DEADLY: THE RISE OF COMBAT AUVS Copyright Jesper/AdobeStock By David Strachan, Senior Analyst, Strikepod Systems rone warfare has come into its own. The war in targeted by warship point defense systems and helicopter gun- Ukraine, what many analysts are calling
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15impact on operational ef? ciency. This hybrid assisted approach will be necessary going forward if the shipping sector is to ever become truly carbon neutral. Future fuels, such as methanol will play a signi? cant role, but their mainstream availability will likely be limited for several decades
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14The Path to Zero work to make OceanWings suitable for lyzed the vessel’s behavior in relation to its maiden voyage – marking it as the commercial vessels was actually a scale the use of its four OceanWings. ? rst modern wind assisted modern ship down of the original design. The wing- Their goals went
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