Feature 1
BMT brings a systematic approach
BMT Defence Services has been engaged in support of Carnival’s
shipbuilding specification processes for automation systems, working in
close collaboration with the cruise giant’s newbuild organisation.
W
hen Carnival Corp appointed
BMT Defence Services Ltd as a
‘Gold Carnival UK Accredited
Supplier’ last year, few realised the full
significance of what has been developing as
a unique relationship between customer and
contractor, coinciding with the wider BMT
Group’s launch of the ‘Services to Passenger
Shipping’ initiative.
The contractor has been working on
a series of projects for Carnival, helping
to refine the technical definition and
management of cruiseship systems during
both the design and in-service phases.
Keith Maidment, a systems engineering
manager at BMT Defence Services said that
the approach had been devised to review
and refine the options for automation as
new construction projects move towards
the build phase, where the mitigation of Carnival Cruise Lines vessel under construction at Fincantieri. Image © BMT Defence
risk becomes more difficult. ‘At a practical Services.
level,’ he said, ‘we check that the automation
system configuration can be traced back to
a structured set of requirements, with every recommend any alternatives. modelled for adaptation to other ships.
element fully justified and matched to the Roger Cooper, managing director at BMT Carnival staff themselves hold the master
crew profile.’ Defence Services, said that the significant model and manage the contents of the
This project has evolved from a starting progress in the level of assurance had database to keep track of any shipboard
point which saw Carnival bring in BMT to been introduced to ‘help Carnival develop system.
advise on concerns over alarm management. sustainable improvements in the way that Currently the analysis is centred on the
Operators have long complained that they specifications are produced and placed on automation system, but BMT Defence
are rapidly saturated with redundant alarms their shipbuilders’. Services has also been working on the Safety
when an emergency occurs. Coral Princess has been used as the Management System and envisages being
Assessing user needs for forthcoming ‘baseline’ in all of these calculations, but able to extend the model across the whole
newbuilds, BMT Defence Services the approach has now been successfully vessel. NA
conducted functional analysis of the
automation system and its interfaces with
power management, HVAC, steering, and
other systems shipwide. In essence, the BMT KONE lifted by new contracts
approach identifies and defines the many
interfaces between systems and sub-systems Aker Yards has placed two contracts with KONE for the supply and installation
so that the number of signals, and thus costs, of all elevators aboard Royal Caribbean International’s Genesis 2 cruiseship,
can be controlled. For example, the interface and Tallink’s Cruise 5 ferry ship. In total, the orders comprise 53 custom
between diesel generator systems and sub- designed elevators, worth approximately €15 million.
systems is linked to a signal list that forms Genesis 2 will equal the size of the first Genesis luxury cruiseship, claimed
part of a highly prescriptive specification to be the largest ever built, at 360m long, with accommodation for up to 5400
which potential suppliers can respond to. passengers. It is scheduled for completion in 2010.
The number of required signals is defined The Cruise 5 ship from Tallink will be the third in a series of cruise ferries for the
and questions can be asked if suppliers Baltic Sea and is due completion in 2009. Both ships will be built in Finland.
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