Going for digital
Rolls-Royce Power Systems is expanding the range of digital services offered to its marine customers
with MTU Customer Care centres in Singapore, Germany and the United States to roll out a new digital strategy, to better support marine engines in service around the world. By using the new digital tools,
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preventative maintenance work can be scheduled to ensure that engines run smoothly. Maintenance intervals can also be better coordinated and optimised, helping guarantee the reliability and availability of engines and related systems. MTU Go! Act and MTU Go! Manage,
the first digital tools to be introduced, are being tested onboard a number of vessels. Connecting up these systems via data loggers will enable MTU experts and customers to monitor engines remotely, schedule maintenance work and determine the availability of spare parts. Tey will also be able to analyse operating data and determine what action is to be recommended to improve the use and operation of marine engines and related systems. Jürgen Winterholler, who heads up the Digital Solutions division, says: “Cyber security and data protection have been assigned the highest priority. Tis is an area where we also benefit from the experience gained in the course of the last 20 years by Rolls-Royce in the aerospace industry.”
Online platform MTU Go! Manage is a presentation platform aimed mainly at fleet managers, operators and MTU service personnel. It can be accessed online with laptops and tablets, and by analysing selected data, users are then able to improve engine operations, process fault messages and plan maintenance schedules well in advance. MTU’s digital development engineers have designed the way data is presented to match particular customer requirements. For example, ferry fleet operators can see exactly where their
Shiprepair & Maintenance 4th Quarter 2018
taff from Rolls-Royce Power Systems’ new Digital Solutions division have been working closely
Navigazione Laghi is one of the first users of MTU’s new digital tools
vessels are located and how many hours of operation the engines have logged up. Genset operators can use the platform to check total output from their units at any given time and find out what the daily power load on the gensets is. According to Winterholler: “Until now, fleet managers could get this data only by asking operating staff to log it manually. They then had to manually compare the information with maintenance schedules. MTU Go! Manage frees up fleet managers by taking that workload off their shoulders.”
Smartphone app MTU Go! Act is an app for smartphones and can work even without an internet connection, including in the engine room of a ship. It alerts the customer’s operating personnel to any issues and helps them to quickly verify and resolve them. Additionally, any issues and relevant information can be reported to the fleet manager for collation at a single location. Te app is intended to simplify communications between operating staff
and fleet managers, as well as accelerate incident identification and clearance. The Italian lakes ferry service
Navigazione Laghi is an early user of the new digital tools from MTU. With a total of 97 vessels providing services on Lake Garda, Lake Como and Lake Maggiore, Navigazione Laghi operates the largest fleet on Italian inland waterways and has around 100 MTU engines in service. “Tere are two aspects that make MTU Go! Manage extremely interesting for us,” says Alessandro Acquafredda, general director. “Firstly, we have access to all the data relating to fuel consumption and the engine’s operating status reliably and in near to real-time and, secondly, it can be analysed for preventive maintenance and troubleshooting purposes.” Te first vessels in the company’s fleet
are already equipped with data loggers, enabling MTU and Navigazione Laghi to jointly monitor the performance of the engines. Personnel from MTU Italia can be called out to support the ferry operator when information is reported by app and are thereby able to prevent downtime. SR
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