The global political landscape has over the last years brought several high-profile projects to Auto-Maskin’s doorstep. The most exciting among them was completed in 2017 involving design and delivery of engine control systems for the entire power plant on an aircraft carrier.
Henning Bredesen, Sales Director, says; “the contract was awarded just as much on long-term proof of quality and knowledge as it was on pure commercial aspects. It takes a special kind of expertise to manage a project with so many professional players and technical parameters, I’m proud to state we possess the qualifications needed to get the job done.”
The system core was the Marine Pro 400 system controlling the awesome 5000 kW engines with generators and additional auxiliary equipment. On top of that, a variety of interfaces to other systems where managed by the Marine Pro units. In cooperation with a huge global engine maker, the system was successfully tested to military standards before delivery to the yard.
The project started with a challenging lead time of only four months. Within that time frame, the Auto-Maskin engineering team was tasked to coordinate information for the many interfaces from a handful of international companies in different time zones. The delivery still took place two weeks ahead of the schedule. Svein Narvestad, project lead, explains why; “experience is the key – resources we meet across the table is often focused on just a small part of the design, whilst we, that are bringing everything together, are always looking over the full picture. Applying our experience enables us to detect potential pitfalls and deliver a system where all systems actually interact flawlessly, in a short timeframe.”
The project was topped off with a successful SAT, attended by Auto-Maskin.
The use of Marine Pro on the aircraft carrier underlines the quality and functionality our customers get when using these products in commercial vessels.
