Interview: Rail Heilmann gives insights how OnCare.Health Marine and the eVSP help vessel operators to save costs.
In real-time, OnCare.Health Marine provides diagnostic information for ships with Voith propulsion systems. The data helps to continuously improve a ship’s fuel efficiency and make it more sustainable.
Ralf Heilmann, Manager Measurements, Voith Turbo Marine, spell out how the use of the cloud-based system also makes ships with eVSP propulsion even more economical…
How do customers benefit from using OnCare.Health Marine?
With OnCare.Health Marine, ship operators and shipping companies can optimize the maintenance of their vessels. The system envisions predictive maintenance that no longer depends on fixed intervals. All relevant systems are monitored in real-time. As soon as critical or predefined values occur on the vessel, the system triggers an alert. This especially prevents consequential damage, as OnCare.Health Marine‘s dashboard reports on the health status of the propulsion system. Maintenance measures in the dry dock can therefore be better
planned and thus correspond with shorter lead times. After all, every downtime reduces the profitability of the ship.
Benefits & key facts
- With OnCare.Health Marine, ship operators and shipping companies can optimize the maintenance of their vessels
- The system envisions predictive maintenance that now no longer depends on fixed intervals
- This means less time in dry dock, more availability and thus more profitability
Can this data also be used to increase the energy efficiency of the eVSP?
OnCare.Health Marine provides users of the eVSP with practical insights to further optimize energy efficiency in operation. We have already collected concrete data and given drive advice on the eVSP in some pilot projects. For example, how much load in relation to pitch, rpm, ship speed, etc., is the system using in relation to fuel consumption in different operational conditions. In addition, the eVSP is similar to the conventional VSP in many aspects. From OnCare.Health Marine‘s point of view, the main difference between the two is that the eVSP does not have a transmission but an electric motor. Customers can therefore rely on the fact that there is already a solid data foundation for the eVSP that will benefit their specific application.
Are there already such specific applications?
One of our UK customers, for example, has chosen OnCare.Health Marine for four of its new ferries with the eVSP. The key reasons were, of course, to optimize efficiency and to increase docking intervals. It means less time in dry dock, more availability and thus more profitability. The first of these ferries will start operation in 2024.
The electric Voith Schneider Propeller (eVSP) combines all advantages of the VSP with the electric motor of the Voith Inline Thruster.
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