My name is Kay Tigges, I’m working in the Marine branch of Siemens,
actually since 1989
and my tasks in this field are on the R&D of propulsion systems
and of efficiency systems.
And in that respect, actually I'm working on waste heat recovery systems to
introduce them in the Marine branch as well.
The Siemens Marine solutions have developed in the last 10 years
so-called PGS, or Power Generation Systems, called SISHIP PGS for waste heat recovery
and furthermore a data backbone system which enables a lot of other applications to run on.
This is called SISHIP ECOMAIN, which can provide all informations from on-board, so I'd say
all information which means all data, all measurements and all supervised data
from other systems on a common data bus to be used for all kind of other applications.
For our department, the main challenge in designing is to consider a lot of
different ambient conditions in the operation
and that leads to the need for good predictability of the system's behavior
under changing ambient conditions.
And we need to simulate these boundary conditions as we say in the mathematic world,
to be able to predict systems behavior
and to design the system to be able to bring the right results for the operators.
The system Amesim runs in real time
to assist the on-board staff in their decisions and in their operations.
And they can rely on the simulated values to do the right decisions at the right time.
With the help of LMS Engineering services we were able to design our systems in time.
And this helps us as a system provider and it helps the onboard personnel
to operate their system in a very efficient way.
LMS Amesim software enabled us to provide a system which can simulate the real world in a perfect way
and we wouldn’t have been able to do it with other softwares which are known on the market so far.
The combination of the SISHIP ECOMAIN and the LMS Amesim system
offers our customers a lot of operational benefits
because the interfaces are already designed so there's no communication problem anymore
and it can be adapted into existing vessels in an easy way.
The use is to have an assistance in the decisions they have to make on board and they can rely on the
simulated values to make the right decisions at the right point in time.
In the future we see clearly there is a lot of potential for the simulation of processes
for example propulsion systems and also for the autonomous operations of vessels,
which is an upcoming issue
and there the on-board personnel can be guided to the right decisions
with a very exact simulation of the process.