Comments on: US Navy Technology May Soon be Utilized on Commercial Ships

By: Dr. Faustus

Dr. Faustus — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:47:01 +0000

Amen brother. NS5 can kiss the fattest part of my A$$.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:10:37 +0000

This system is based on NS5…its a pipe dream until ABS NS get their programmers to make the program reliable. As of now ABS NS is hardly a reliable form of recording data, is not user friendly in its basic form. Additionally the data requirements for this are big, ABS NS can hardly even record and replicate photos and entries for continuous survey requirements, it certainly cannot provide much beyond basic text for replication back to the shore base. Keep up the marketing and keep pumping out the crap with no real backbone functioning software.

By: ex FFG Sailor

ex FFG Sailor — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:56:32 +0000

If the US Navy has indeed been at this over over 10 years, its a major leap for them.

The engineering plant on the FFG I was on back in the mid 90′s was scary.

Coming to the Navy from the merchant marine I was expecting to find well maintained equipment in pristine spaces. After all, there was a huge budget and nearly limitless manpower, right? WRONG! The reality was quite the opposite.

Underfunded, undermanned, and just barely keeping the lights on was the norm. The rediculous ‘PMS’ program at the time seemed to encourage taking functioning machinery apart just for the sake of taking it apart and reassembling it.

Reliability of numerous systems especially Ships Service Diesel Generators (SSDG) and watermakers was horrendous. We left for deployment with 4 working SSDGs. Detriot 16V149TI’s, as I recall. The first one blew multiple cylinder heads within 24 hours, and it was all downhill from there. By the end of deployment we had 2 barely reliable ones, one completely unreliable one, and one that supplied spares to the others.

I hope it has improved significantly.