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ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System - OCTOPUS

ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System - OCTOPUS is a unique product family for performance management in marine operations. Through various deployment methods, fuel consumption and emissions are able to be reduced by guiding crew decisions quickly. Availability and safety of the ship is able to be measured and protected as well. Fleet visibility is achieved through secure data transfer for broader analysis by shoreside specialists in the office.

Performance monitoring systems

The OCTOPUS system offers a broad range of functionality to optimize energy efficiency onboard a vessel. The system is able to gather vessel data from an unlimited amount of sensors. Depending on client wishes, basic configurations can be set-up for SEEMP compliant fuel monitoring, all the way to having a comprehensive insight in the vessels overall energy flow and distribution of various consumers onboard the vessel.

OCTOPUS Onboard Energy Monitoring System

OCTOPUS Energy optimization

OCTOPUS Cleanhull

The OCTOPUS Energy Management System is a decision-support tool to minimize the overall energy costs for individual vessels and whole fleets. It compares and analyzes the historical and current operational data of the vessel, then calculates and advises on areas for improvement with easy-to-understand displays. The Solution consists of onboard & onshore modules for energy monitoring and optimization.

The OCTOPUS Energy optimization modules help the operator to find and manage the optimum energy balance onboard. The modules calculate and advise the optimum load sharing between the various producers such as diesel generators, shaft motors, main engine, waste-heat recovery and batteries.

ABB has developed an office-based tool, accessible through the Fleet Portal module, which estimates the hull and propeller fouling. This is based on an advanced data model of the vessel which enables an exact propulsion power breakdown. The hull cleaning and scheduling tool helps to plan the cleaning schedule and to calculate the return on investment.

Voyage advisory solutions

When using OCTOPUS onboard a vessel, the operating crew has access to a state of the art decision support toolbox that optimizes safe and efficient voyage execution. OCTOPUS assists ship officers and engineers in making real time decisions enabling them to be proactive in safety and efficiency actions, resulting in more immediate benefits than just traditional post voyage analysis.

DP Forecast

Motion Monitoring and Forecasting

Trim optimization

Advanced Motion Monitoring

With dynamic trim optimization the operating crew will receive advice on the optimum trim in any operating conditions, including variations in speed, draft, water depth, wind and waves. Depending on the vessel type and operational profile, the savings potential can be up to 5% of propulsion energy cost.

By use of additional motion monitoring sensors in the far corners of the vessel Motion Monitoring and Forecasting can be extended to any virtual point within the vessel, there by the module allows operator to monitor motions and accelerations for any given point of the vessel.

Other services and tools

OCTOPUS-Office

OCTOPUS Fleet Portal

Advanced Analytics

Custom solutions

Marine Academy

Fatigue rate indicator and advisory system
Heerema Marine Contractor's Balder has been equipped with a strain gauges and accelerometers to monitor the accumulated fatigue damage and fatigue rate. A tailor-made Marine Software system has been installed to display the results, to forecast the fatigue rate and to guide the navigators over the Atlantic Ocean with the minimum risk for excessive fatigue damage to the J-Lay tower. Shore-support has been made possible by the use of the OCTOPUS Fleet portal.

Real-time crane tip monitoring
Real time crane tip monitoring is carried out onboard Jumbo's Fairplayer for accurate lifting and positioning of a heavy precious piece of cargo.

Surveyor Box
The OCTOPUS system can also be delivered as a mobile system in an all-weather proof box.