Maritime Reporter, September 1997

<BODY> <div> imi.lilAHIMilWiliMM.ty 1 try member support necessary to be entered as a work item for ISO standard development. ISIT's roll- out will start in the fourth quarter of this year. ISIT will allow a ship owner in Greece to seamlessly exchange data with a class society in Norway. It makes true fleet-wide systems integration a reality with a host of financial benefits including dra- matically reduced communica- tions costs and numerous savings from financial integration. It holds the promise that an owner will be able to view or update a work procedure on his or her com- puter, and have it update all of the computers on his or her ships whether they are a mile away, or half way across the world. ISIT Industry Advisory Board Owners/Operators: •Stolt Parcel Tanker •Chevron Shipping •Sea-Land Service •Coastal Tankers Inc. • Osprey-Acomarit •Marine Transport Lines •Eletson Corp. Shipyards: •Ingalls Shipbuilding •Bath Iron Works •NASSCO •Avondale •McDermott •Trinity Marine Group •Alabama Shipbuilding •Newport News Communications Companies: •Comsat •Orbcom •AMSC •Iridium •Mobile Datacom Classification/Government Societies: •ABS •DNV •LLoyd's Register •U.S. Coast Guard Virtual Reality: Denab Presents DARPA Software Deneb Robotics, Inc. recently gave a presentation of its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), utilizing the September, 1997 company's Envision and Deneb/ERGO software to immerse participants in a ship firefighting scenario. The demonstration was complet- ed in conjunction with Electric Boat as part of a DARPA-spon- sored Simulation Based Designed (SBD) project, the most recent stage of which was led by Lockheed Martin and focused on the Advaned Surface Combatant notional surface ship design. Envision reportedly enables users to design, build, test, operate and support multiple product and system scenarios in a fast, efficient and cost-effective manner. Envision provides an environment for developing and validating the design of complex mechanisms, ABS DYNAMIC SHIP DESIGN AND STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT DiE S 1 GiN • by analysis i NOT i by guesswork ABS SAFEHULL WIDELY IMITATED NEVER DUPLICATED Apply sophisticated dynamic-based, engineering first principles to the design and evaluation of tanker, bulk carrier and containership hull structures. Leave the empirical extrapolations and prescriptive guesswork to others. SafeHull is available only from the ABS® office nearest you or e-mail: safehull@eagle.org for the latest Windows™ based version. Circle 259 on Reader Service Card 97 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>