Propulsion Dynamic announced its plan to work together with ECKS MARINE on the German maritime market, to improve energy efficiency related to hull and propeller condition. Daniel Kane, Vice President of Propulsion Dynamics stated that Big Data is only half of the answer in improving ship performance. The total answer, he said, is in a Grey Box approach with in-depth hydrodynamic analysis combined with human intelligence applied to this big data.
Copenhagen based Propulsion Dynamics and Hamburg based ECKS MARINE have signed an agreement to work together on the German maritime market, to improve energy efficiency related to hull and propeller condition with Propulsion Dynamic’s CASPER Service.
Torsten Ecks, owner and founder of ECKS MARINE sees many synergies in combining the sales and marketing of the CASPER reports with other products of ECKS MARINE’s customers.
“The benefit and ROI that CASPER delivers is obvious”, Ecks says, “and our mission is now to bring this into the heads of the tonnage owners and operators in Germany.”
According to Daniel Kane, Vice President of Propulsion Dynamics
“Big Data is only half of the answer in improving ship performance, the total answer is in a Grey Box approach with in-depth hydrodynamic analysis combined with human intelligence applied to this big data. Further, there needs to be a policy tailored to the shipowner / charterer on how to utilize the CASPER data in day to day ship management, otherwise big data is just that … big data”.
Propulsion Dynamics claims to be the first company to offer outsourcing of Hull and Propeller Performance Analysis as a turnkey service utilizing manually or automatic collected VPMS data. The company says that the CASPER Service has made “hull performance” a common technical topic and continues to pioneer through hydrodynamic analysis of performance data from multitudes of monitoring systems, a rating system for hull and propeller condition and consultative development of technical policies improving fleet performance.
Source: Propulsion Dynamics
