Controls & Automation Services
The GBS Group’s Maritime team provides complete controls engineering and system integration, including design, documentation, programming, training, testing, HMI, requirements validation, project management, and maintenance services.
Control Systems
- Systems utilizing Versa Module Euro (VME) backplanes
- Digital, analog and serial Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) boards
- Communication boards
- Systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Multiple I/O and communication modules
Drawing Review
- Create control system block diagrams/schematics
- AutoCAD
- Review existing control system diagrams
- Provide comments and guidance
- Present control system drawings at Design Reviews for customers
Shipboard Testing
- Create control system test procedures
- Perform lab and shipboard testing
- Provide complete and thorough Test Reports with recommended solutions to any test step failure
Shipboard Troubleshooting
- Provide full shipboard support
- Distance support as well as onsite troubleshooting with crew/user
Crew/User Training
- Develop crew training documents
- Provide onsite and shipboard training
Design/Develop Software Applications
- Automate systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Simulation Environment
- Virtual Environment simulating ship’s auxiliary, propulsion, electrical and fuel transfer for testing automation software
- Embedded code for microprocessor based hardware
- PXI card interfaces for communication via Modbus protocol and hard-wired communication
Human Machine Interface (HMI)
- System troubleshooting/analysis application
- Event and alarm application use for warning system
Interfaces
- Modbus protocol
- Communication modules
- PLC Integration
- Microprocessor based systems
- Field/shipboard sensors (analog and digital)
- Transducers
- Switches
System Scenario
- Automated logic development for software or hardware design
Requirements Validation
- Using DOORS Requirements Tool
Object Oriented Development
- Applications for Windows and Unix/Linux
Programming Languages
- C/C++
- JAVA
- Ladder Logic
- Visual Basic
- Other .Net Languages
Configuration Management Tool
- ClearCase
Discrepancy Report Tool
- ClearQuest
Rail / Transportation
Maritime Services
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