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Big Data Only Half of the Answer in Improving Ship Performance: Propulsion Dynamics
Propulsion Dynamics Inc. (Propulsion Dynamics) Friday announced a new deal with with ECKS MARINE to help promote its CASPER hull and propeller performance monitoring service in the German maritime market.
"The benefit and ROI that CASPER delivers is obvious", says Torsten Ecks, founder of ECKS MARIME.
"Our mission is now to bring this into the heads of the tonnage owners and operators in Germany."
Daniel Kane, Vice President of Propulsion Dynamics, says that since 2003 over 10,000 CASPER Reports have been made, which when acted upon "will improve performance in the range of +/-5% within 2 years."
"Big Data is only half of the answer in improving ship performance," says Kane.
"The total answer is in a Grey Box approach with in-depth hydrodynamic analysis combined with human intelligence applied to this big data. Further, there needs to be a policy tailored to the shipowner / charterer on how to utilize the CASPER data in day to day ship management, otherwise big data is just that ... big data".
