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Safe operation and labor - saving in merchant ships are eternal themes, which have given impetus to the development of automation. In recent years, according to the complexity in ship's plants, the technique of higher advanced automation has been required.
The conventional centralized type monitoring and control system, however, has been limited in performance depending on the processing capacity of CPU, and insufficient in expandability. Therefore, the Distributed Control System (DCS) which has been applied to land use plants but not developed for marine application, is going into use on the ships where highly advanced automation is required.
Under these circumstances, we have developed MHI - DCS which is superior in flexibility and expandability, and suitable for marine use. The system consists of operator station, control station, input/output station, and network.
In the application of MHI - DCS, individual control system onboard can be standardized resulting in better operability and simple maintainability. In addition, since it is superior in expandability, the most optimum system can be composed for every plant. We are confident that this system will considerably contribute to the ship's safe operation and labor-saving in the future.
