Sea Goddess Fire Detection Upgraded
M/V’s luxury cruise ships ‘Sea Goddess I and II’. KMSS will be supplying its Autronica fire detection system to these identical sister ships. The order follows the recent demand from the National Safety Transport Board in USA for an integrated Local Buzzer in each cabin smoke detector. KMSS is the only company capable of delivering the ‘smart buzzer’ mounted inside the detector. This buzzer does not require any extra cabling as it is powered from the detector loop. after 30 seconds, allowing the passenger to hear the Ship’s PA system after the local alarm. The upgrade consists of approximately 400 detectors and other field devices per ship, with delivery expected early 2002. replace a system from Thorn Security that was installed in 1994.
ABB Facility Authorized As Repair Center
ABB Automation has inaugurated the first of three global factory certified centers of excellence for industrial repair services. Separate from its current repair facilities, ABB is consolidating its testing, repair and reconditioning centers into a trio of strategic locations to more efficiently serve a wider customer base. These new centers will be located in North America, Europe and Asia. The inauguration of the new facility, which occurred on May 23, marked the first U.S. repair center of its caliber to be designated as a factory authorized ABB repair center. Measuring more than 18,000 sq. ft., the facility has twice the amount of space than the previous repair center.
FPSO Retrofit Design Accelerated With CAD
Software that automatically produces loop, cable, and termination drawings from information in piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) allowed Merpro Limited to prepare electrical schematics for an offshore retrofit twice as fast as on previous projects. The retrofit involved a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) tanker, the Bluewater Uisge Gorm, which was increasing the water cut and accumulating solids in one of its separators. Merpro designed a system that addressed both problems. The documentation for the system included 78 electrical schematics, and in a time and cost-saving move designers created "intelligent" P&IDs containing equipment specifications, engineering information, and other data.
