⠿ ENGINES & TURBOCHARGERS
(^32) ⠿ MARINE MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL | APRIL 2016
W
ärtsilä’s latest service offering
for its marine engine customers
is known as Lifecycle solutions. The
company describes this as an innovative,
comprehensive service agreement that
optimizes the efficiency and performance
of assets.
Lifecycle solutions consist of
three concepts, known as Optimized
Maintenance, Optimized Operations
and Guaranteed Asset Performance.
The portfolio includes the recently
launched Wärtsilä Genius services,
which uses digital technology to help
optimize customers’ assets in real time,
improving predictability and helping to
provide a solution to any performance or
operational issue that may be identified.
The Optimized Maintenance concept
replaces the two former maintenance
and technical management agreements.
It involves planning and scheduling
maintenance procedures to suit the
customer’s operations, improving long-
term cost predictability and uptime
throughout the lifetime of the machinery. A
remote operational and technical advisory
facility can be included if required.
Optimized operations provides real-
time monitoring and advisory services
to maximize efficiency. The solution can
provide a SEEMP (ship energy-efficiency
management plan) to IMO guidelines.
It monitors parameters such as hull
performance, engine efficiency and
condition monitoring, which, combined
with vessel audits and component
condition evaluation, helps identify areas
where performance can be enhanced.
Wärtsilä is particularly proud of its
Guaranteed Asset Performance offering,
which it says provides guaranteed
operational reliability. In practical terms,
it determines performance targets based
on measured data and offers a guarantee
that they will be reached and maintained.
“Guaranteed Asset Performance is
an innovative new solution. With remote
advisory, our marine customers can
get real-time support regardless of
their location, and the remote service is
complemented with onboard advisories.
Condition monitoring and audits, together
with a performance improvement plan,
increase availability and reliability. We
are confident in offering this kind of
guarantee because we know that Wärtsilä
can deliver on its promise,” says Tage
Klockars, general manager, marine
service agreements.
“Wärtsilä Genius services change online
data into real-time onboard advisories
and smart back office analytics that, in
turn, can be refined into performance-
improving advice about asset operation.
What we can measure, we can optimize
and guarantee,” Klockars adds.
“Furthermore, Wärtsilä Lifecycle solutions
help customers comply with changing
regulations as they can monitor and
report their emissions and performance to
the relevant authorities in real time, based
on data analytics.”
Academies, we offer tuition in English as well
as in the local language,” says Per Rud, head
of PrimeServ Diesel.
Wärtsilä is another company that offers
training. Through its Wärtsilä Land and Sea
Academy (WLSA) it has 10 training centers
with a range of standard courses as well as
programs tailored to individual customer
requirements. The company says that WLSA
covers all aspects of management, operation
and maintenance to optimize the safety,
availability, reliability and performance of
marine installations. WLSA offers onboard
and on-site training.
Engine room simulators are an important
part of many maritime colleges’ and
universities’ education programs. They
often form part of a complete ship simulator,
along with bridge and navigational training
equipment. Among recent engine simulators
installed by Kongsberg Maritime of Norway
is a full engine room simulator at France’s
École Nationale Supérieure Maritime
(ENSM) in Le Havre, and a new K-Sim Engine
simulator model for the Royal Australian
Navy’s HMAS Cerberus training facility near
Melbourne.
Choose the right lubricant
One of the other areas of concern identified
by The Swedish Club is incorrect engine
lubrication with contaminated oil or bunkers,
and faulty operation of purifiers. This is
again thought to result from insufficient
experience or training. This is of particular
concern as the data used to compile the
report came from claims in 2012-2014, before
the 0.1% fuel sulfur limit was mandated in
Emission Control Areas (ECAs).
Engine designers and lubricant suppliers
have both noted that different cylinder oils
are needed for fuels with high and low sulfur
content, and switching fuel grades involves
changing the cylinder oil. Heavy oils with
high sulfur content have good natural
lubricity, but produce sulfuric acid in the
cylinder. For this reason a highly alkaline
lubricant is specified. Switching to low-
sulfur distillate fuel needs an oil with much
lower alkalinity and stronger lubricating
properties – otherwise deposits will rapidly
form in the engine and there may be undue
wear to auxiliary equipment such as fuel
Guaranteed Asset Performance
is an innovative new solution.
With remote advisory, our marine
customers can get real-time support
regardless of their location
Tage Klockars, Wärtsilä
THREE CONCEPTS MAKE UP LIFECYCLE AGREEMENT
Sensors on modern
engines can report data
to shore in real time