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Customer Success Story: Converteam

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Europe

Country

United Kingdom

Product

C-Series Vessel Control System
GENESIS32

Tech Stack

OPC Server
Data historian workstations

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Cost Savings

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Marine & Shipping
Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation
Maintenance

Use Cases

Remote Asset Management
Predictive Maintenance

Services

System Integration
Training

About The Customer

Converteam is a leading supplier of power conversion engineering. The company provides customized solutions to convert electrical energy through physical equipment such as motors, generators, and drives. In addition to manufacturing automation and process controls, Converteam serves the Marine, Oil & Gas, Energy, and Manufacturing industries. Their services are applied internationally. One of their solutions for the marine and offshore industry includes the C-Series Vessel Control System (VCS) which combines ship wide supervisory control and monitoring together in a single system, enabling operators a complete overview of all ship systems.

The Challenge

Converteam, a leading supplier of power conversion engineering, needed a reliable and efficient HMI system for their C-Series Vessel Control System (VCS) used in the marine and offshore industry. The HMI system needed to comply with standards and regulations concerning night vision and other safety measures. It also needed to be extensible, modular, flexible, and have good connectivity. The company had tried several other HMI systems but they failed in these key areas. The HMI system was to be implemented in a fleet of LNG tankers designed to transport liquefied natural gas.

The Solution

Converteam selected ICONICS’ GENESIS32 as the standard HMI for their C-Series Vessel Control System. This decision was made after comparing several other HMI systems that failed in key areas of extensibility, modularity, flexibility, and connectivity. In marine and offshore applications, HMI faces unique issues. HMI displays located on the bridge must comply with standards and regulation concerning night vision and other safety measures. Aboard ships where Converteam’s C-Series VCS is implemented, ICONICS’ GENESIS32 screens have three modes to enable the bridge crew better external observation: one for daylight, one for dusk and dawn, and one for night. GENESIS32 screens further ensure safety and convenience with touch-screen drivers and oversized symbols for “finger-sized” use.

Operational Impact

The modularity within GENESIS allows for proven control objects to be deployed to reduce engineering time and greatly improve project development quality, with fewer errors, delivering benefits in testing and commissioning.
After only three days of training, an experienced control engineer became sufficiently conversant with GENESIS32.
The availability of complete information behind each screen symbol allows instant access to all information at any point in the development and integration process.

Quantitative Benefit

The recently completed LNG fleet for a major UK energy company used a large control and monitoring system with over 750K HMI tags, 220K of alarms & events and 5,600 system I/Os.
The standards and regulations surrounding the use of software control on vessels include a requirement that displays must appear on request, within two seconds. ICONICS and Converteam easily comply with this requirement.