Feature 5 | ELECTRICAL AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM REPAIRS & REFITS SAM upgrades cruise ship navigation system
Germany’s SAM Electronics has undertaken another notable project involving a cruise liner.
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ast year, SAM Electronics successfully upgraded the existing navigation system aboard Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’
Europa with a NACOS Platinum assembly. A further major retrofit aboard a European- based cruise liner has recently taken place and involved the upgrading of the existing, earlier generation NACOS 3 system aboard TUI Cruises’ Mein Schiff 1 through the installation of the Platinum version. Te role of SAM Electronics within this
particular project started with an onboard inspection to categorise the existing equipment and work out a project schedule together with the crew. Tis was followed by discussions with the ship’s owner. SAM Electronics service engineers then
boarded the vessel in Palma de Mallorca to complete the exchange and installation of the NACOS Platinum system. They also installed a fibre optic cable as part of an Ethernet Gigabit network for the new system’s bus assembly. Te project involved a total of nine service engineers who were responsible for testing the new system, as well training the ship’s crew, before the vessel’s departure. Te time-critical project was completed
over a period of seven days and required the installation and exchange of nine workstations, 12 monitors, a Trackpilot track-keeping system, a voyage data recorder (VDR), four radar scanners and a Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS). SAM Electronics has also been involved
in a number of other navigation system upgrades on cruise vessels in the past year. This includes three Star Cruises vessels that were retrofitted with NACOS Platinum in Asia Te introduction of the NACOS Platinum series of navigation and automation control
A NACOS Platinum integrated automation and navigation system retrofitted aboard Star Pisces, one of three Star Cruises’ vessels to be upgraded with systems during the course of last year.
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SAM Electronics’ new Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS) designed for installation aboard vessels of all types and classes.
systems has been a key recent initiative by SAM Electronics, which is part of the L-3 group. By using Ethernet as a common bus, the system’s modular configuration is intended to ensure simplified installation and commissioning, not only for newbuildings, but also for retrofit projects. Moreover, systems can be supplied to shipyards preconfigured, thereby saving valuable time and money during any conversion. The new systems are also designed to
provide an intuitive and consistent Human Machine Interface (HMI) via one common platform for vessels of all types and sizes. For retrofit applications calling for, say, compatibility with older radar scanners, SAM has developed a transceiver interface unit as well as special converters for connection of sensors with an analogue output to any new system. Separately, SAM continues to develop standard products to
cost-efficient fulfil latest IMO carriage regulations.
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