Wärtsilä provides support for Siem Offshore vessels
24/05/2021
Finland-based company Wärtsilä has signed an agreement with Siem Offshore covering reduction in emissions and predictive maintenance for two well intervention vessels.Wärtsilä has prepared a five-year optimised maintenance agreement with Siem Offshore to provide real-time monitoring and support of vessel systems to reduce fuel consumption and emissions and provide predictive maintenance through its Expert Insight solution.
Expert Insight leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced diagnostics to monitor equipment and systems in real time, spot anomalies and foresee potential problems.
“We are especially excited with Expert Insight, which allows us to monitor the condition of the engines from ashore and, thanks to AI and abnormality detection, we expect to prevent unscheduled stops that cause loss of revenue,” said Dag Honnemyr, Operational Director Siem-Helix.
The two vessels in the agreement are the Siem Helix 1 and the Siem Helix 2, which have eight Wärtsilä 32 engines.
“Lifecycle support is a key element of our strategy and our advanced digital and data-based maintenance solutions are central to enabling optimal operational performance,” said Henrik Wilhelms, Director, Agreement Sales, Wärtsilä Marine Power.
“The benefit of being able to efficiently monitor the equipment and support customers remotely is enhanced even more today, since, due to Coronavirus-related travel restrictions, in-person visits by service engineers can be difficult to arrange. Since our engineers need to travel less, their carbon footprint is reduced, while at the same time we can optimise the performance of the asset, so it is really a double win.”
