IHC Systems Dedicated to Efficient Dredging

IHC Connect worldwide dredge connectivity

an IHC Merwede company Efficient Dredging...

‘Efficient Dredging’ helps contractors to make the most of their dredging equipment: to generate high economic and ecological benefits, achieve optimal utilisation rates, reduce dredging time, make the dredging process smoother, simplify fault diagnosis, reduce downtime and wear, prevent under- and over- dredging, and maximise crew satisfaction.

Even after a shipbuilder has built reliable and efficient equipment, and even after contractors have optimised equipment utilisation, the Efficient Dredging concept continues to make a significant contribution, providing dredgers with extra ‘senses’ and ‘hands & feet’.

Relatively modest investments in instrumentation, automation, surveying and simulation techniques produce major improvements in efficiency and accuracy. Automation under dredge master supervision can enhance production by up to 30%.

IHC Systems draws on all kinds of conventional and innovative control, automation, communication and presentation technologies. We also make the most of the knowledge and resources of the entire IHC Merwede group.

The concept is honed in close alliances with contractors and worked out in specific products, systems and services for every category of dredger and in every field. The products can cope with all dredging and mining conditions.

Our knowledge, expertise and experience are dedicated to reducing over-dredging, spillage, energy consumption, emissions, turbidity, ecological side-effects and operational costs. They represent our contribution to a sustainable future for all our stakeholders.

...our contribution to a sustainable future

2 BenefitsIntroduction.

The dredging and mining information acquisition and industry has become ever more communication platform specially ICT-intensive. Communication designed for the dredging and technologies continue to develop, mining industry. The platform accompanied by increasing provides secure access to all demands for more process onboard automation systems, and information, faster maintenance or it can monitor virtually any process repair response times, and higher on board, making the information levels of equipment availability. So available through an easy-to-use remote services are increasingly WebPortal. in demand. IHC Systems has responded by developing IHC Connect. IHC Connect is a general

Online availability of data about actual status ... load on wear parts …

instrumentation … vital sub-systems and …

location, covering TSHDs ... CSDs ... and excavator dredgers

3 Detailed process information from any piece of onboard equipment ...

IHC Connect facilitates the reduction of support cost and downtime

4 ... is the key to reducing support costs and downtime

5 Download and Request pages

Download as PDF

Request as Web Portal

6 Flexibility

The key characteristic of the IHC Connect Ship to Shore Connection automation systems and to provide Connect platform design is flexibili- Any available TCP/IP based onboard immediate and pro-active support ty. Flexibility for supporting all types data link (e.g. satellite, GPRS or helps to cut equipment support of dredging and mining equipment, WiFi) can be used and shared for costs and down times. flexibility for supporting innovative the ship–shore connection. Security application development and use is of the utmost importance and so Connect WebPortal and, finally, flexibility for providing IHC Systems uses the communica- The Connect WebPortal is the point customers with the freedom to tion protection technology of one of of access for ship-owners for remo- build in features that meet their Europe’s leading security providers, te access to all information available particular demands. To deliver the Phion. Every ship will be provided on board their vessels. The simple desired level of flexibility the system with its own centrally managed interface provides enormous flexibi- breaks down into four modules that firewall appliance to ensure that lity to obtain data for the analysis of can be mixed and matched accor- only authorised traffic reaches the specific behaviour about on board ding to every customer’s needs. onboard network. The integrated equipment. With an easy-to-use bandwidth management functiona- request page, users can search for Connect Box lity ensures that only the minimum and select data from every owned The Connect Box is the onboard bandwidth will be used. Connect Box. Once a selection equipment that operates as an has been made, the Management interface between the automa- Connect Management Centre Centre processes the request and tion systems on the ship and the The Management Centre secures all reports back on progress and on the Connect Management Centre on traffic on the communication plat- availability of the data sent to the shore. One of the most important form. Health monitoring to secure download page. To prevent unau- features of the Connect Box is the the high availability of the platform, thorised access, the Web Portal is one that enables the collection of as well as administrative tasks like also secured using Phion protection vast amounts of process data. The updating configuration settings and technology. multi-channel Connect Box not only installing software patches in the supports IHC automation systems, onboard firewall appliance, are all third-party systems can also be managed from this single central connected. The supported com- location onshore. The Manage- munication standards are, OPC-DA, ment Centre also processes all OPC-HAD, ODBC and OLE-DB. A data requests submitted using the total of 5000 signals with a maxi- Connect WebPortal or otherwise. In mum sampling rate of 10Hz can be this way, data from the ship is never logged and stored onboard for up transferred twice and large data to a year. The integrated calculation files can be handled and distribu- module can convert the raw data ted easily amongst multiple users. into useful information. All availa- Besides providing secured commu- ble data – whether it is real-time nication and data management, the data from the connected system, Management Centre has also been historical log data or processed data developed to provide remote sup- – can be sent to shore. To prevent port for vessels at sea. Specialised unnecessary strain on the available IHC Systems support representa- data link, data is only sent to shore tives can respond without delay to when requested. support calls from anywhere in the world. The ability to access onboard

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