Ship control, monitoring and alarm systems are the first means of defence if anything is wrong with the ship – an alarm will sound, a control system will make a correction.
Unfortunately, as we all know, the systems are getting increasingly complex, and surprisingly little checks are made between systems made by different manufacturers to check they work properly. Seafarers get used to automatically switching off alarms without checking what they are.
This one day conference, organised in association with Lloyd’s Register, presented present a systematic means of identifying possible failures on your ship control systems and what can be done about it.
The keynote speaker was Richard Vie, vice president newbuilding with Carnival Corporation. Derek Chubb from the UK Ministry of Defence will present the shipowner’s point of view. MAN B&W, Lyngsøe Marine and Kongsberg will present their technologies.
Delegates registered included DNV, Honeywell, US Department of Defence, ABB, Servowatch Systems, L3 Communications.
Dr Jonathan Earthy, principal human factors specialist, Lloyd's Register (chairman and conference producer)
Jonathan Earthy is principal human factors specialist for Lloyd's Register. He joined Lloyd's Register in 1992 after ten years with British Petroleum. After working in a range of projects and jobs related to safety and information technology. Jonathan is now responsible for coordinating Lloyd’s Register's Marine research and development with respect to the Human Element and Systems Engineering. He represents the UK interests in international standards committees for Ergonomics, Marine systems and system and software engineering. In addition to chairing the presentations and facilitating the discussion sessions Jonathan will open the event with a presentation of ISO 17894 the new standard for marine systems development.
Carnival Corporation’s project to capture the essential functional requirements of large integrated, alarm, monitoring and control systems (IAMCS) with a view to validating its design for future vessels
While IAMCS bring undoubted benefits they create other problems in terms of information overload, a sense of detachment from the processes being controlled and do not necessarily help in making the correct decisions, especially in highly stressful situations and when unusual events occur.
Richard Vie is vice president newbuilding and technical development at Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding, responsible for an engineering team giving complete technical support for the fleet expansion programme of Carnival Corporation. Carnival Corporation brands include Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line and Windstar Cruises in North America; P & O Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village and Swan Hellenic in the United Kingdom; AIDA in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe; and P & O Cruises in Australia. Carnival operates a fleet of 75 ships, and has another 9 ships scheduled for delivery by mid- 2006. There are roughly 175,000 people at sea with Carnival at any given time.
10.30 Owner - supporter's requirements, ship control systems. Derek Chubb, marine electrical systems integrated project team, Defence Logistics Organisation, UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)
Lessons learnt from whole ship, whole systems risk identification and mitigation to achieve through life cost effective and efficient platform management systems for future navy warships.
Technology, cost drivers and constraints identified, key risk is good (and stakeholder agreed) requirements generation and management to improve business and system procurement matched to the MOD UK acquisition process.
High level requirements are generic to any marine platform.
Derek Chubb as Head of Marine Electrical Systems Control Group for Platform Management Systems (PMS)in the Defence Logistics Organisation advocates the adoption of a generic systems engineering approach to automation and human systems integration for all marine engineering acquisition in MOD(UK). Responsible for the in-service support of the Royal Navy 1st Generation PMS on HMS ALBION, and de-risking the procurement and design process for future systems.
Joern S Andersen, manager, basic electronic systems, MAN B&W Diesel
Joern Andersen is manager, basic electronic systems, MAN B&W Diesel. MAN B&W claims to have the largest share of the world market for two- and four-stroke engines for ships of 2000 gross tons or more. Altogether it has approximately 6,700 employees worldwide
Integration with other equipment onboard, and safety issues caused by that.
Risks of open operating systems in control applications.
Maintenance and update.
11.30 BREAK
12.00 Erik Styhr Petersen, manager special projects, Lyngso Marine
Erik Styhr Petersen, manager special projects, Lyngsø Marine, which supplies automation systems, control and alarm systems, main engine control systems. Today more than 8.000 ships world-wide have been outfitted with Lyngsø Marine automation or surveillance systems. Lyngsø Marine A/S has offices in Denmark, Korea and China, and is a daughter-company to SAM Electronics, together supplying the brand names STELLA, SAM Electronics and DEBEG to customers world-wide.
12.30 Sverre Gotaas, VP development, Kongsberg
Sverre Gotaas is VP development, Kongsberg. Kongsberg is an international technology corporation headquartered in Norway, with over 4000 employees in more than 20 countries, focused on maritime and defence industries. It supplies a full range of marine automation systems and sensors. Its propulsion control system "Autochief" has won several major design awards for ergonomics and usability.
1.00 Panel discussion - are manufacturers meeting shipowners requirement for minimised risk control systems
1.30 LUNCH
Bernard Twomey is head of electrical and control engineering, Lloyd's Register. He is very involved in Lloyds Register's "Dependable Systems Review" consultancy service, to analyse weaknesses in control systems on ships and ship newbuilding designs.
3.00 Computers and networks in ship control.
Professor Jens Dalsgaard, Aalborg University
Professor Jens Dalsgaard is a lecturer in the Department of Control Systems at Aalborg University of Denmark.
3.30 The European ATOMOS project – designing safe and effective integrated ship control systems.
Erik Styhr Petersen, manager special projects, Lyngso Marine
4.00 Panel discussion: The way forward for you
4.30 Close
Speakers currently considering making presentations from OSG Shipping and Siemens
Unfortunately, as we all know, the systems are getting increasingly complex, and surprisingly little checks are made between systems made by different manufacturers to check they work properly. Seafarers get used to automatically switching off alarms without checking what they are.
This one day conference, organised in association with Lloyd’s Register, presented present a systematic means of identifying possible failures on your ship control systems and what can be done about it.
The keynote speaker was Richard Vie, vice president newbuilding with Carnival Corporation. Derek Chubb from the UK Ministry of Defence will present the shipowner’s point of view. MAN B&W, Lyngsøe Marine and Kongsberg will present their technologies.
Delegates registered included DNV, Honeywell, US Department of Defence, ABB, Servowatch Systems, L3 Communications.
Introduction
9.30 Introduction by Lloyd's Register - what are we going to do today - introducing ISO 17894 - a new standard for system dependabilityDr Jonathan Earthy, principal human factors specialist, Lloyd's Register (chairman and conference producer)
Jonathan Earthy is principal human factors specialist for Lloyd's Register. He joined Lloyd's Register in 1992 after ten years with British Petroleum. After working in a range of projects and jobs related to safety and information technology. Jonathan is now responsible for coordinating Lloyd’s Register's Marine research and development with respect to the Human Element and Systems Engineering. He represents the UK interests in international standards committees for Ergonomics, Marine systems and system and software engineering. In addition to chairing the presentations and facilitating the discussion sessions Jonathan will open the event with a presentation of ISO 17894 the new standard for marine systems development.
Shipowners speakers - what do we need
10.00 Richard Vie, vice president newbuilding and technical development, corporate shipbuilding, Carnival CorporationCarnival Corporation’s project to capture the essential functional requirements of large integrated, alarm, monitoring and control systems (IAMCS) with a view to validating its design for future vessels
While IAMCS bring undoubted benefits they create other problems in terms of information overload, a sense of detachment from the processes being controlled and do not necessarily help in making the correct decisions, especially in highly stressful situations and when unusual events occur.
Richard Vie is vice president newbuilding and technical development at Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding, responsible for an engineering team giving complete technical support for the fleet expansion programme of Carnival Corporation. Carnival Corporation brands include Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line and Windstar Cruises in North America; P & O Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village and Swan Hellenic in the United Kingdom; AIDA in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe; and P & O Cruises in Australia. Carnival operates a fleet of 75 ships, and has another 9 ships scheduled for delivery by mid- 2006. There are roughly 175,000 people at sea with Carnival at any given time.
10.30 Owner - supporter's requirements, ship control systems. Derek Chubb, marine electrical systems integrated project team, Defence Logistics Organisation, UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)
Lessons learnt from whole ship, whole systems risk identification and mitigation to achieve through life cost effective and efficient platform management systems for future navy warships.
Technology, cost drivers and constraints identified, key risk is good (and stakeholder agreed) requirements generation and management to improve business and system procurement matched to the MOD UK acquisition process.
High level requirements are generic to any marine platform.
Derek Chubb as Head of Marine Electrical Systems Control Group for Platform Management Systems (PMS)in the Defence Logistics Organisation advocates the adoption of a generic systems engineering approach to automation and human systems integration for all marine engineering acquisition in MOD(UK). Responsible for the in-service support of the Royal Navy 1st Generation PMS on HMS ALBION, and de-risking the procurement and design process for future systems.
Manufacturers speakers - what can we provide
11.00 Safety philosophy and issues of the control system for the electronically controlled engine.Joern S Andersen, manager, basic electronic systems, MAN B&W Diesel
Joern Andersen is manager, basic electronic systems, MAN B&W Diesel. MAN B&W claims to have the largest share of the world market for two- and four-stroke engines for ships of 2000 gross tons or more. Altogether it has approximately 6,700 employees worldwide
Integration with other equipment onboard, and safety issues caused by that.
Risks of open operating systems in control applications.
Maintenance and update.
11.30 BREAK
12.00 Erik Styhr Petersen, manager special projects, Lyngso Marine
Erik Styhr Petersen, manager special projects, Lyngsø Marine, which supplies automation systems, control and alarm systems, main engine control systems. Today more than 8.000 ships world-wide have been outfitted with Lyngsø Marine automation or surveillance systems. Lyngsø Marine A/S has offices in Denmark, Korea and China, and is a daughter-company to SAM Electronics, together supplying the brand names STELLA, SAM Electronics and DEBEG to customers world-wide.
12.30 Sverre Gotaas, VP development, Kongsberg
Sverre Gotaas is VP development, Kongsberg. Kongsberg is an international technology corporation headquartered in Norway, with over 4000 employees in more than 20 countries, focused on maritime and defence industries. It supplies a full range of marine automation systems and sensors. Its propulsion control system "Autochief" has won several major design awards for ergonomics and usability.
1.00 Panel discussion - are manufacturers meeting shipowners requirement for minimised risk control systems
1.30 LUNCH
2.30 The regulatory and class perspective
Bernard Twomey, head of electrical and control engineering, Lloyd's RegisterBernard Twomey is head of electrical and control engineering, Lloyd's Register. He is very involved in Lloyds Register's "Dependable Systems Review" consultancy service, to analyse weaknesses in control systems on ships and ship newbuilding designs.
3.00 Computers and networks in ship control.
Professor Jens Dalsgaard, Aalborg University
Professor Jens Dalsgaard is a lecturer in the Department of Control Systems at Aalborg University of Denmark.
3.30 The European ATOMOS project – designing safe and effective integrated ship control systems.
Erik Styhr Petersen, manager special projects, Lyngso Marine
4.00 Panel discussion: The way forward for you
4.30 Close
Speakers currently considering making presentations from OSG Shipping and Siemens
