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Your crew is key to making the most of your energy management system (EMS), but you can never take crew involvement for granted. A recent graduation project shows how you can get your crew on board through change management. Get the key findings!

What should you do to help increase your chances of receiving grants? Read on for 10 expert-approved tips for writing a successful application.

By upgrading power equipment before it reaches end of life (EOL), you get optimised reliability and may benefit from technological advances. Using EOL policies defined by your suppliers is a good way of planning for upgrade operations well in advance.

It’s great to have a scrubber that can remove SOx emissions from your vessel’s exhaust, but it’s less great if the scrubber also takes out your onboard power system. With intelligent power management, you can comply with IMO regulations, avoid blackouts – and save fuel.

Retrofits are primarily made with the intent to reduce maintenance costs, increase reliability, extend the lifetime of the vessel, incorporate new technologies, change their operational designation or compensate for perceived weaknesses in their design, save fuel and reduce emissions. Also, end-of-life of an installed product or new regulations are essential factors for performing a retrofit.

With Close Before Excitation (CBE), you can get full backup power in less than 10 seconds – with any number of gensets. The CBE feature is included with several DEIF genset controllers. Read how it works, and what other benefits it can provide.

Is there a way of ensuring controller redundancy in critical power systems in order to maximise reliability and uptime? With multi-master power management systems, the answer is a resounding YES, and you can get other value-added benefits into the bargain. Get an overview here, and the full details in our FREE whitepaper.

Do you need to develop highly customised but IEC 61131-3 compliant applications for PLC solutions? The CODESYS development environment allows you to develop a solution that fits your requirements using any combination of five different programming languages. Read more here!

Want to customise your DEIF PPU 300, GPU 300, or PPM 300? With the free CustomLogic tool, you can exploit the versatility of these advanced controllers by developing custom logic in a user-friendly ladder logic environment – without writing a single line of code.

With the built-in asymmetrical load sharing (ALS) feature on the DEIF PPM 300 controller, you can distribute the power load according to the optimum operational point of each connected genset. The result: Optimised operation, fuel savings, and cleaner emissions!