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SHIPMASTER® Cargo & Ballast Automation System

SHIPMASTER® Cargo & Ballast Automation System

SHIPMASTER® Cargo & Ballast Automation System

Product catalog summary
Introduction to SHIPMASTER®: SHIPMASTER is a Cargo & Ballast Automation System designed to modernize and enhance the automation capabilities of both older vessels and newbuildings. It offers a modern user interface and advanced system capabilities, utilizing standard PC components for cost-effective and readily available spare parts.
Retrofits: The system is ideal for retrofitting older vessels with outdated automation systems. It provides a cost-effective solution by using standard PC components, ensuring easy access to spare parts and reducing the risk of costly system failures.
Newbuildings: For new ships, SHIPMASTER offers flexibility in integrating various subsystems like gauging systems, valves, and pumps into a cohesive solution, tailored to meet specific needs.
Installation Flexibility: SHIPMASTER allows ship owners to retain effective parts of their existing systems while replacing underperforming components, ensuring a customized and efficient automation solution.
System Capabilities: SHIPMASTER provides comprehensive control over tank loading and discharging, with easy monitoring and control of pumps, valves, and other equipment via a PC and dedicated operator keyboard. It is compatible with other KOCKUM SONICS products like LOADMASTER® and LEVELMASTER®.
Operational Benefits: Key benefits include minimal technological changes for maintenance, a modern software platform, unchanged instrumentation, minimal I/O module changes, and multiple workstations and display units.
Optional Packages:
  • SEAWARE® ENROUTE: Offers advanced route planning and online support, allowing for careful voyage planning and management of critical situations based on the ship's seakeeping characteristics.
  • PORTSIM®: A PC-based real-time ship maneuvering simulator, leveraging over 60 years of experience in ship maneuvering and mathematical modeling for reliable simulations.
Contact Information: Kockum Sonics has subsidiaries in China, Russia, the UK, and the USA, with headquarters in Sweden, providing global support and service.
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SHIPMASTER® Cargo & Ballast Automation System-1

Always ready to support you - Our strength is your benefit! Cargo & Ballast Automation System Why should you select SHIPMASTER? Typically older vessels have automation systems based on old technology and spare parts are rapidly becoming scarce and expensive if not obsolete. A system failure can be very costly. Apart from having a modern user interface and advanced system capabilities our system is based on standard PC components giving our customers access to spare parts at very low prices with great availability. Kockum Sonics can provide ship owners with total flexibility in choice of gauging systems, valves, pumps, alarms etc. Pick your favorite subsystems and we will integrate them into one solution and a modern platform. Giving you the best system the market can offer that fulfills your needs. Installation flexibility meeting your needs Kockum Sonics provides a solution for ship owners who want to have the better of two worlds. Keep the parts of the automation system that has proved itself worthwhile and replace the parts that are not up to scratch. Kockum Sonics has developed and tested SHIPMASTER together with Karismar Marine Systems with more than 30 years of experience in marine automation.

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ays ready to support you - Our strength is your benefit! SHIPMASTER® system capabilities SHIPMASTER Cargo & Ballast Automation provides a complete overview and control of the loading and discharging of tanks. Pumps, valves and other equipment are easily controlled and monitored on screen from a SHIPMASTER PC and the dedicated operator keyboard. Graphical process views provide the operators with a full picture of gauging sensors, temperature sensors etc SHIPMASTER is of course compatible with other KOCKUM SONICS products such as Operational benefits The following benefits can be derived from SHIPMASTER...

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