The Equipment Health Management System (EHMS) gathers as well as evaluates information from the MTU engines, ZF transmission systems as well as various other vital elements on a vessel, thinking about extra aspects, such as wind, waves as well as currents
Rolls-Royce as well as ZF are establishing a brand-new digital surveillance system for ships. The objective is to attain optimum vessel accessibility, while maintaining gas intake as well as carbon dioxide discharges to a minimum. Called the Equipment Health Management System (EHMS), it is being examined by German centered worldwide ferryboat driver FRS Group (Förde Reederei Seetouristik) utilizing its vessel Hallunder Jet.
Delivered by Norway’s Fjellstrand shipyard in 2003, the 52 m long catamaran lugs as numerous as 680 guests from Hamburg to the North Sea island of Helgoland as well as back everyday. Four 16-cylinder Series 4000 MTU engines providing a complete outcome of over 12,000 hp (around 9,000 kW) make it possible for the high-speed ferryboat to run at rates of approximately 35 knots (65 km/h). The propulsion system likewise consists of ZF 7650 NR2H transmission systems as well as Kamewa waterjets.
The Equipment Health Management System (EHMS) gathers as well as evaluates information from the MTU engines, ZF transmission systems as well as various other vital elements on the vessel, thinking about extra aspects, such as wind, waves as well as currents.
INTEGRITY IS WHAT WE WORTH
“Reliability is what we value most of all,” claims Tim Kunstmann, Managing Director of FRS Helgoline GmbH & &Co KG. “When you have 680 passengers standing on the St. Pauli Piers in Hamburg waiting to board the Halunder Jet ferry to Helgoland, reliable ship operation is a top priority.”
FRS has a total amount of 58 vessels running ferryboat solutions as well as staff transfer solutions for overseas wind ranches in Europe, North Africa, the Near East as well as North America, as well as presently has 40 MTU engines in solution.
“The large number of vessels, the variety of vessel types operated and their areas of operation make the FRS fleet particularly interesting for the development project, as it enables us to develop a product designed specifically to meet the demands of a large fleet operator,” claims Bartosz Kowalinski, task supervisor at MTU’s moms and dad Rolls-Royce Power Systems
NEXT ACTIONS
The following action in the task will certainly be to establish a user interface from the ZF transmission systems to the Equipment Health Management System, accumulate information from the different elements of the powertrain on the Halunder Jet and after that to evaluate the information gotten. With the help of nimble functioning techniques, acting outcomes are consistently taken a look at by the consumer in order to establish to what level they satisfy needs. On the basis of this collective setup, Rolls-Royce as well as ZF wish to have the ability to use maritime consumers optimized as well as incorporated propulsion services. To day, 70 percent of MTU’s aquatic engines have actually been provided with ZF transmission systems.
