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36 st / February 2016 www.sea-technology.com Wider Range of Applications The complexity and cost of the systems and extensive commissioning and tuning procedures traditionally made the system available only for high-end users, but a new set of tools for test, design, operation and support has simplifed the process, making the technology available for a wider range of users. "Our goal is to enable more crane and winch manufactur- ers to deliver AHC equipment," said Hammersland. Well-established as a provid- er of class-leading solutions for monitoring and control systems for fshery and research vessels, Scantrol benefts from close collabo- ration with key players in the marine sector. The Norwegian Institute of Ma- rine Research has been an important partner for developing and testing of control systems, such as the iSYM (In- telligent Symmetry) trawl control and an underwater camera system for fsh monitoring. Today, there are more than 1,000 vessels worldwide using Scant- rol systems. Easy Testing, Implementation Scantrol AHC is a well-proven sys- tem, with each project built on a com- mon AHC software and communica- tion platform. This makes it possible to provide a standardized system custom- ized for each project instead of devel- oping a new control system for each customer, considerably lowering the cost of acquiring an AHC system. In order to facilitate installation on existing equipment, the company has developed AHC Toolbox, a smart set of tools used during design, testing, operation and remote support. This saves valuable time and resources for both Scantrol and its customers, as all stages in the process can be monitored from a remote offce location indepen- dently of where the vessel is located. The tools can determine the potential effect of AHC on winches and cranes, even before ordering the system. The AHC Toolbox proved an invalu- able tool during a recent AHC upgrade of the winch of a Bibby HydroMap ROV deployed vertically beneath the support vessel. The upgrade was ex- ecuted during vessel operation and de- livered and tested in only three weeks. The customer's need was to perform continuous mapping of the seabed and cables, and the solution was an AHC upgrade from Scantrol that could heave compensate its d'ROP survey ROV winch, as this proved a cost-effective option with short lead time. With the help of AHC Toolbox, everything was tested before sea trial and before the system was shipped and installed by a service engineer from Scantrol's world- wide support network and surveyed remotely by engineers from their offce Scantrol has developed a smart set of tools used during design, testing, op- eration and remote support. The fac- tory test can be done remotely with the Dynatest tool so that engineers from Scantrol can supervise the process from their company offces in Bergen, keep- ing the time and cost investment as low as possible for the customer.