Ahead of USCG type approval…
Proactive response to IMO environmental regulations
Disclosure of unmanned ship system…showing fourth industrial revolution technology
Samsung Heavy Industries, which participated in Korea's largest exhibition of shipbuilding and marine equipment, "KORMARINE 2017" in two years, through the S&SYS, which was spun off as an independent corporation last month,
In response to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) environmental regulations and the fourth industrial age, S&SYS has unveiled a number of state-of-the-art solutions such as BWMS, Purimar, and Ship’s automation control systems.
At the "KORMARINE 2017" held at BEXCO in Busan on the 24th, Samsung Heavy Industries participated again in two years as "S&SYS," which was separated from the existing Machinery & Electric System team into a separate independent corporation.
Samsung Heavy Industries, which did not participate at the exhibition in 2015, said, "We have been preparing to participate in KOMARIN as S&SYS after the spin off to independent corporation last month” and told “S&SYS’s business itself can be seen as an independent enterprise."
S&SYS unveiled state-of-the-art solutions such as BWMS (Ballast Water Management System), 'Purimar', 'ICMS', Integrated Control & Monitoring System 'SSAS-Master(s), and 'IAS-Master' (Integrated Automation System and SSAS-Master). These systems are in the spotlight as environmental regulations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and blue-ocean in the fourth industrial era.
First of all, Purimar is a safe and environmentally friendly system because it effectively removes harmful organisms from the marine ecosystem while reducing the amount of active substances used in the sterilization process to a harmless level to the environment.
The system is expected to be approved by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) next year for type approval of BWMS (Ballast Water Management System). This would be the first time in Korea provided that type approval is made.
Sales of USCG-approved companies are expected to grow rapidly in the future as at least 10,000 ships worldwide are estimated to be required to be equipped with the USCG-approved BWMS.
"All new ships in 2020 have to be equipped BWMS and after a certain period of time, for all ships around the world need to be installed ballast water management systems”, “Currently the U.S. and areas where maritime environmental regulations are severe, they check the ship directly so that a ship cannot be docked unless BWMS is installed. " an S&SYS official said.
ICMS(Integrated Control & Monitoring System, SSAS-Master(s)), IAS (Integrated control Systems. SSAS-Master), etc. are integrated control systems that have thousands of alarms in a ship, and can be identified by automation other than on manual.
This system is optimized for the vessel like LNG carriers, oil tankers and container ships, which are the super-large ship sector requiring construction technologies that Samsung heavy industries has. A single PC allows ship engineers to grasp and control all situations.
"With the growing interest in the smart-ship field, we expect to apply it widely in unmanned systems, in the future." an S&SYS official said.