ABB Marine & Ports hosted their first ‘hot topic’ customer event in Aberdeen on May 16.
The event highlighted the value of using marine digital services in today’s challenging market. The solutions demonstrated the role of connectivity in reducing costs and increasing efficiency and safety onboard.
The company also provided an insight into ABB AbilityTM, the initiative which is unlocking group-wide expertise in network connectivity and digital technologies, by developing a solutions and services portfolio that addresses real business problems and opportunities.
ABB also demonstrated the 2017 European Engineering Award-winning ABB Marine Remote Diagnostics and Integrated Operations Centres. With over 220 thousand nautical miles tracked each day and over 3100 individual signals, ABB has taken a significant step towards Advanced Data Analytics over the past three and half years. Owners and operators are increasingly looking for suppliers that offer remote troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and condition-based maintenance. ABB is adding sensors and software to system deliveries on board the vessels; improving data transfer storage, and analysis of the data.
The Aberdeen office now has the inbuilt capability of utilising the information to support customers in abnormal situations, in maintenance planning, and in helping to optimise ship operations. The future fleet will be better connected to the owner’s shore side technical department, and to ABB’s technical departments – by having access to the same information and monitoring systems.
ABB’s Phil Lawson, Head of Marine & Ports in the UK said: “Our digital services connect the ship’s crew with their technical and nautical departments in the office, and ABB’s domain expertise as the supplier of mission-critical systems. The driving force behind these solutions are operators at sea and onshore who want to work by using the latest digital and cost effective technologies.”
The group sees itself as emerging from being a ‘hidden digital champion’, and becoming ‘the partner of choice for customers embarking on a digital transformation’. ABB has also opened five collaborative operations centres to provide remote support by ABB technicians for monitored systems and engineers on board ship. For further information please see www.abb.com/marine
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