Mooring System
The Keynes Controls Mooring Advisory system is a real time
graphical analysis package which can be used to advise, monitor and control
mooring systems attached to floating structures. The advisory system can be
used predict line tensions, advise on payouts for rig movements, catenary
analysis line failure predictions, alarm monitoring and also as a general
purpose position monitoring system. The software package can be interfaced
directly to the NP4000 range of instrumentation. When operating with the
control instruments the package can be used to directly control the mooring
line payouts. The software can be used to manually examine how to move a
structure from one location to another and then by a simple key press, be used
to move the structure. Line tensions are monitored continually and should they
increase above set safety limits the payout will stop, trigger warning alarms
and/or move the structure to reduce line tensions to a safe limit. The software
is simple to use. The real time display is initially setup by following
answering a simple set of questions. You define the number of mooring lines,
their operating specification and their initial layout using a simple grid.
Once the software is setup and operating it is simple task to use to analyse a
mooring system or to monitor operations. To see how the mooring system responds
to anchor movement simply select the line to move by use of the mouse. Move the
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