Kongsberg wins AiP for digital DP surveys

Kongsberg Maritime’s DPDS application has received AiP from classification society Bureau Veritas (Source: Kongsberg)

Bureau Veritas has granted Approval in Principle (AiP) for Kongsberg Maritime’s Dynamic Positioning (DP) Digital Surveys (DPDS). Following successful trials with Bourbon Offshore last year, Kongsberg can now undertake annual dynamic positioning surveys digitally.

The DPDS application digitalises all data derived from DP annual tests to verify the performance and redundancy of the specific shipboard system. This includes assessing and checking the entire DP set-up including sub-systems such as power supply, thrusters and DP control arrangements.

The application, which acquires data directly from the DP system, then transfers the information to class surveyors via Kongsberg’s secure cloud platform. Once the data is uploaded, the survey can be undertaken at any time from any location. The surveyor ashore plays back the DP Annual program and examines the high-quality DP data in detail. Each test is unique and can be played back individually.

Kongsberg said that maintenance management system interfaces and tamper-proof image upload functionality make the test visualisation far better than paper-based evidence collection, supported by photographs and videos. This has been the industry norm for many years.

Egil Haugsdal, Kongsberg Maritime President, outlined some of the benefits for vessel owners. “The digital survey tool enables substantial savings to be made because far less time needs to be spent off-hire and it obviously removes the requirement to cover travel expenses for surveyors. It can also improve crew competence, simplifying the DP Annual trials and making the approval process for more efficient and straightforward. Furthermore, as the application is essentially an add-on to our existing Kongsberg Information Management System, it’s easy for vessels to integrate and deploy DPDS.”

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