Following 2 years of mindful advancement as well as extensive trialling, Kongsberg Maritime’s Dynamic Positioning Digital Survey (DPDS) application has actually been supported by Bureau Veritas (BV) via their classification ‘Approval in Principle’.
In the wake of in 2014’s effective pilot tests, performed with the help of overseas company BOURBON Offshore (https://bit.ly/3f8zGyU), BV as well as Kongsberg Maritime have actually been operating in close cooperation to utilize the understandings stemmed from the preliminary setup. BV is currently enabling vessel proprietors as well as drivers to carry out DP Annual tests making use of the DPDS application. Kongsberg Maritime has actually additionally utilized this time around to prepare as well as furnish for extensive shipment.
The DPDS application distinctively digitises all the information stemmed from the DP Annual examinations, performed based on IMO MSC Circ 1580 standards as well as IMCA M 190, to validate the efficiency as well as redundancy of the vessel-specific DP system. This includes the total setup required for dynamically placing a vessel, consisting of, yet not restricted to, the complying with sub-systems: power system, thruster system as well as DP control system.
Running on a confirmed, commercial information recording as well as administration system that offers matchless information high quality as well as uniformity, the KILOMETRES DPDS application offers accessibility to information gotten straight from the DP system. The information is moved to course property surveyors using KONGSBERG’s protected cloud facilities upon conclusion of the tests. The property surveyor can after that repeat the DP Annual test program onshore, based upon the premium DP information collected. Each examination is distinct as well as can be repeated separately. Surveys can be performed any time from any kind of place once the information is posted to the KILOMETRES cloud.
This data-driven facet of the application is of certain worth for ship proprietors, that can utilize the electronic study device to collect as well as existing concrete proof that the required examination treatments have actually been performed as well as finished.
Thanks to upkeep administration system user interfaces as well as tamper-proof picture upload capability, the examination visualisation supplied by the DPDS application is much above the paper-based proof collection– total with picture as well as video clip recordings– which has actually often tended to serve as the sector standard for several years.
“The benefits of the DPDS application to vessel owners are numerous,” claims Egil Haugsdal, President,Kongsberg Maritime “The electronic study device makes it possible for significant financial savings to be made due to the fact that much much less time requires to be invested off-hire, as well as it clearly eliminates the demand to cover traveling costs for property surveyors. It can additionally boost staff skills, streamlining DP Annual tests as well as making the authorization procedure much more reliable as well as simple.
“Furthermore, as the application is essentially an add-on to our existing K-IMS application suite, it’s easy for vessels to integrate and deploy DPDS.”
Bureau Veritas’ very own development in the digitalisation of studies has actually seen the advancement of an extra BV course symbols, DDPS (Digital Dynamic Positioning Survey), an enhancement to the existing DYNAPOS symbols. “It should be very apparent that BV approval is not issued lightly. The DPDS application has met our stringent criteria to demonstrate compliance in principle with the BV additional class notation DDPS (Digital Dynamic Positioning Survey),” includes Laurent Leblanc, Vice-President as well as Marine Operations Director,Bureau Veritas “The quality, detail and security of the transferred data have to meet our exacting standards, and we’re satisfied to confirm that the KM DPDS application fulfils its function admirably.”
Sea News, August 27
