The crew on board the cruise ship Costa Atlantica, belonging to Carnival’s Costa Crociere fleet, combined Wärtsilä’s Eniram Trim and Nacos Platinum systems to gain a better understanding of the ship’s trim, thereby enhancing both safety and efficiency.
The Eniram Trim functionality allows immediate response to changing conditions and the maintaining of an optimum trim in real time. Wärtsilä’s Nacos Platinum control system is used for navigation, automation and dynamic positioning. The combination of these systems leads to operator benefits, including better operational visibility, fewer workstations, and improved customer support in the collection and subsequent analysing of data.
The information the systems provide is available on all the Nacos screens, thus providing greater visibility and awareness. The overall result is improved efficiency and safer operation of the vessel.
Eniram Trim Analysis
The Eniram Trim analysis is based on a model of a vessel’s hydrodynamic characteristics, the information gathered by attitude sensors installed on the vessel’s hull, and the vessel’s automation and bridge systems. The input gained enables the Eniram Trim to calculate the optimal trim in real time, which leads to lower fuel consumption and greater cost savings than is possible with conventional trimming methods.
Nacos Platinum
The Nacos Platinum system represents a combination of control systems for navigation, automation and dynamic positioning, as well as power and propulsion. By integrating these functions into a single system, the vessel can be navigated, controlled and monitored from various onboard positions. The multi-functional operator stations enable flexibility and convenience.
Picture: The Nacos Platinum system’s conning page also showing the Eniram Trim functionality.
