ROLLS-ROYCE MARINE CONTROLLER H1127.0101

A ship is a complex assembly of systems and items of equipment, all of which have to be controlled and monitored. Rolls-Royce is a systems integrator providing a vast array of products and systems for ships of many types, including large CP propellers, thrusters for propulsion and manoeuvring, waterjets, stabilising and motion control, deck machinery, tank systems, diesel and gas engines, LNG fuel systems, and power electrical hybrid systems with batteries. In many cases we also provide the designs for the ships themselves. All of these systems and sub-systems need controls, alarms in case of problems, and automation. We have built up enormous expertise in this area, ranging from control and monitoring of simple items of equipment to the extremely safety critical control of nuclear power reactors. During recent decades Rolls-Royce automation systems have been expanded in scope and developed through several generations, from simple tank-sounding in the 1960s through UMAS, to today’s comprehensive Acon Integrated Automation System (IAS). Like other systems it has been based on the Rolls-Royce Common Control Platform since the middle of the previous decade. In the same way propulsion and thruster controls have gone through several generations of development.