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equipment & technology Corenas Life S1000D was the best fit for the project.
Imtech wins HVAC
Mekon is providing implementation and integra-
tion services across the whole content management
order for CVF
system, while its own long-running and popular
Eclipse Suite for Adobe FrameMaker provides the
Imtech in The Netherlands has been awarded a design applications for authoring documentation. The
and build contract for climate control technology innovative Eclipse Bookbuild application enables
aboard the UK Royal Navy’s new QE class aircraft authors to build and print multi-volume publica-
carriers. The order has a value of more than £118 tions, and ensures that information contained in
million (US$190.7 million). the documentation – such as lists, figures, tables –
The contract was awarded by Babcock Marine, a are automatically updated, ensuring that complex
member of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, and includes technical information is always correct. Mekon
a ‘total solution’ for the technical design, engineering, are also supporting the conversion of unstructured
equipment, supply, installation and set-up of all HVAC documents into S1000D-compliant data modules.
systems on the carriers.
The order was awarded to Imtech’s German business submarines
unit, Imtech Schiffbau-/Dockbautechnik. A sizeable
share of the activity will be performed in co-operation
Steel cut for Italy’s
with Imtech Marine UK in the UK, which has executed
Type 212A subs
several other similar projects for the Royal Navy.
Steel has been cut on the first of two new Type 212A
Documentation (Todaro) class submarines for the Italian Navy. The
Portuguese yard
work began with a ceremony at Fincantieri’s Muggiano
yard on 9 December 2009.
brings Mekon on
The first two boats, Todaro and Scirè, were ordered
in August 1997 and joined the fleet in March 2006 and
board
February 2007.
The new boats are being built under a €915 million
A major Portuguese shipbuilder has appointed a UK (US$1.4 billion) contract awarded in August 2008.
firm to save them time and money by implementing They will replaced the Improved Sauro class boats
the S1000D standard for the technical documenta- Salvatore Pelosi and Giuliano Prini from 2015.
tion on their latest warship. Mekon, an independ- The new boats will have Siemens fuel cells for their
ent specialist in technical publications systems, is air-independent propulsion (AIP) systems (a contract
evaluating and implementing a technical documen- worth the equivalent of US$42.6 million has been
tation system for the new Viana do Castelo class of placed for two PEM fuel cell systems with Siemens
ocean-going patrol vessels being built by the Estalei- Industry Solutions by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche
ros Navais De Viana Do Castelo (ENVC) dockyard. Werft (HDW)).
The S1000D standard, developed specially for
the Defence sector, helps to connect engineering equipment & technology
processes with documentation, leading to signifi-
cant efficiency gains and cost savings. Working with
Cathelco systems
local engineering partners Certitecna, Mekon is
fit for class
implementing S1000D across the project to enable
engineers and designers to create, edit and manage Cathelco in the UK has supplied marine pipework
content in format-independent ‘modules’ in a control- anti-fouling systems for a complete class of fleet
led, single source database. replenishment oilers serving the US Navy.
The result is, the company notes, a far less The 14 Henry J Kaiser class vessels are operated by
time-consuming and much more efficient documen- the Military Sealift Command and provide underway
tation management process. It also enables design- replenishment of fuel for US Navy ships at sea and jet
ers to produce documentation, such as descriptive, fuel for aircraft assigned to aircraft carriers.
operational and maintenance documents, in a wide The final vessel in the series to be installed with a
range of formats, from book-based printing to interac- Cathelco system will be the USNS Patuxent, a fleet
tive electronic technical publications (IETPs). Mekon replenishment oiler which was built at the Avondale
used its proven analysis process, including the Mekon Shipyard and launched in 1991.
Content Strategy Audit, to evaluate which products The orders for systems were won by Allied Marine
best suited ENVC’s specific needs and concluded that Services, Cathelco’s long-establish agent in the USA.WT
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