EXPLORATION • DRILLING • FIELD SERVICES
manufacturing dates, is made visible via a scanner and the exact replacement of the components required can be initiated within minutes. Even if such an emergency does not occur, the PTS Pro serves as a primary planned inspection management tool.
replacement, store employees are available with competent advisory assistance. Te service programme for marine operations is completed by the similarly named Parker Marine Services programme. At first sight they are very scientific but in practice fascinating challenges that the marine service team addresses: measurements under the sea surface – underwater metrology – are undertaken with the help of photogrammetry. Te experts create photographs and precise photographic images with special cameras, from which the spatial location or three-dimensional shape of an object is determined. Tis technology is used amongst others for salvaging wrecks.
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Complete Piping Solution application inside of a ship
Another component in the service repertoire is
the ParkerStore concept – a well-established solution for servicing and maintenance. Worldwide Parker has about 2,400 stores, all of which have available a minimum stock level of the 3,000 most popular tube, hose and fittings components. ParkerStore specialists support customers with the immediate replacement of defective hose components. Tey do this either at the store itself or on site via the mobile Parker Hose Doctor service. In the case of
Complementing the global GNSS navigation satellite system, for on-board technology Parker offers a special 3D reference system with which ships are held exactly on course at all times. Te co-ordinate system of this technology is based on the centre line of the ship, the rudder post and the reference levels set on the main deck. Experts are on site when exact mapping of the sea floor is involved. Tis procedure is also an important prerequisite for the selection of locations for wind turbines (monopiles) and connector components, as well as their erection. At the latest, the calls for even more safety
measures will become louder when the next oil catastrophe occurs. To prevent this disaster occurring, Parker has developed the PMS position monitoring system. During the offshore loading of crude oil, this technology guarantees safe, trouble- free media transportation from ship to ship. An additional technical highlight is the Olex MBES system – a real-time programme for the graphical display of fan-shaped sonar signals. Tis system is used for surveying channel bottoms, river estuaries and flat coasts so that finally a digital terrain model and topographical map can be created.
Altogether the company’s service programme for marine applications represents an attractive alternative to ‘home-made’ solutions, based as it is on a worldwide network of outlets, on components and systems best matched to each other – all coming from a single source. Furthermore, it has the benefit of wide experience in the development of tailor- made, customer-specific solutions. l
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The Parker Maritime Service programme helps to increase the safety and efficiency of marine applications
Tobias Hammer &Thomas Rüdiger are with Parker Hannifin.
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