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Engine Room Simulator
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Kongsberg Maritime Simulation & Training Low, Medium and High Speed Propulsion Plants Diesel Electric Propulsion Plant Steam Propulsion Plant

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Engine Room Simulator Applications We maximize marine performance Power Management Process Understanding by providing The Full Picture Crisis Management Fuel Economy Core competencies Technology Environmental Protection Real equipment know-how Regulatory understanding Operational experience External interfaces Software Visualization E-learning User interface Hydrodynamics Physical modelling Training & Exercises Software architecture Assessment & Evaluation 2-stroke Slow Speed Engines Products Hardware Our mission We shall earn the respect and recognition for our dedication to provide...

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The Demand for Maritime Personnel The labour situation within the maritime sector is a topic that attracts much attention worldwide. Many fear we are entering a period where a massive shortage of qualified personnel can, among other factors, represent a possible threat to both quality and safety standards. At the same time, customers, authorities and other stakeholders constantly increase their demand for higher quality, precision, safety and corporate social responsibility. Based on this complex situation, the maritime industry worldwide is expected to have a strong focus on recruiting...

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The Need for Simulators in the Maritime Industry Different tasks - different needs Investment in maritime simulators is no longer limited to just the largest academies and organizations. Today's simulator customers represent a broad mix of different organizations, from public training academies and universities, training centres and vocational schools, to shipping and oil & gas companies, as well as military training organizations including Navies, Coast Guards and Maritime Police. Accordingly, engine room simulators must be flexible to meet the user's various needs. Simulators today can be...

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NEPTUNE Engine Room Simulator The world's most advanced simulator Behind the NEPTUNE engine room simulator lies an investment of more than 140 person-years of development. This major investment has resulted in the most advanced engine room simulator available in the market today. NEPTUNE builds competence from the ground up by providing the most realistic depiction of engine and engine room operations. In order to learn the complex behavior of an engine room, NEPTUNE simulators enable high guality training in every aspect, from single sub-systems to the overall running of the engine room....

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"We have been using NEPTUNE engine room simu- lators to their full extent and to our full satisfaction over the last 15 years. The validity of the engine room simulator training is highlighted by the fact that the Netherlands Ministry of Transport awards up to 60 days sea time remission of the initial 360 days requirement for seafarers, based on the pro- grammes conducted for our students on the various KONGSBERG simulators including NEPTUNE engine room simulators." Capt. Stephen. J. Cross, Former Head of Maritiem Instituut Willem Students running an exercise at the engine control room...

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NEPTUNE Engine Room Simulator Although realism and pedagogical values are at the forefront of NEPTUNE, we are dedicated to exploring and improving every single aspect of engine room simulation to ensure our customers and students get the most out of our solutions. Here are some of the features that make NEPTUNE the leading engine room simulator system: High fidelity models All our engine room simulators are dynamic real-time process simula- tors of high fidelity, built after specifications based on real engine physics. This means that all seguences will automatically be in proper order and...

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Maximum flexibility A core priority in the development of NEPTUNE has been to optimize the user's investment. The result is the most flexible engine room on the market. A NEPTUNE simulator can be expanded at any time, with additional models, panels, workstations or complete integrated engine rooms. In addition, our customers also benefit from the flexible configuration solutions. The interchangeable switchboards in the control room allow conversion between different propulsion plants, which is increasing the customer training possibilities. Our MultiTouch system, which uses multiple touch...

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NEPTUNE Instructor System NEPTUNE Instructor System The monitoring, assessment and configuration tool for our NEPTUNE simulators has been designed to enhance the guality of simulation training by providing complete, intuitive and user-friendly control of student exercises. It enables the instructor to develop customized exercise modules for individuals, teams or a combination of both from any PC running the application, with fully controllable areas such as: • Initial Condition - describes all the variables at the start of the • Triggers - a combination of events that initiate an Action,...

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Customer Feedback Kalmar Maritime Academy, Sweden "Kalmar Maritime Academy has since 1977 used maritime simulators from KONCSBERC. Since then, our simulator park has grown continuously with the system developments from the company. We have a very close and professional relationship with the supplier and when KONCSBERC developed the solution of interfacing NEPTUNE engine room simulator to the K-Chief automation system, Kalmar Maritime Academy was the first site to install this system giving the possibility to train students on actual integrated automation systems, taking simulator training a...

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Students training on an engine room simulator with LOS consoles at Kalmar Maritime Academy, Sweden 12

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KONGSBERG's Guarantees Unique experience KONCSBERC is the world's leading manufacturer of maritime elec- tronics. We delivered our first simulator in 1972. Since then we have supplied systems ranging from desktop computer based training systems to sophisticated full mission engine room simulators, all of which are based on our experience with real ship systems. We have delivered high guality engine room simulators to the market for decades, and today a large percentage of the world's ship's officers and engineers are trained on our simulation systems. We take pride in knowing that KONCSBERC...

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