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20 May 2017
Four ships
commission cable
laying software
IN the last few months, the submarine cable industry’s
cable installation software, MakaiLay, has been
commissioned on four cable laying vessels around the
world.
KT Submarine (KTS, Korea) recently completed a
challenging installation with one of its cable laying
vessels, Segero. It also commissioned the software on its
other vessel, the Responder, and is currently using it to
manage a cable installation in the Pacific.
“To provide more accurate cable installation services to
our client, we started using MakaiLay in our most recent
cable lays, and we are impressed with its capabilities,” said
Mr Moon, engineer-in-charge, KT Submarine.
“Especially useful is the look-ahead feature that allows
us to keep the cable on the desired route and to
maintain the correct bottom slack by issuing appropriate
instructions to the cable engine and the DP operators.”
MakaiLay is currently being commissioned on NTT World
Engineering Marine Corporation’s (NTTWEM, Japan) newly
constructed cable laying vessel, Kizuna.
MakaiLay is advanced subsea cable installation software
that enables users to lay submarine cables with the highest
level of accuracy, speed, safety and reliability possible,
reducing the risk of cable failures.
The software has been rigorously tested and validated
and is used by over 80 per cent of the global fleet of
cable ships on countless commercial lays and military
installations to successfully install well over 400,000km of
cable worldwide.
Makai Ocean Engineering Inc – USA
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Business development engineer
Doug Druce has been appointed to to Sikora’s office in
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which opened in 2015.
The office serves customers of the wire and cable, optical
fibre, hose and tube and plastic industries with measuring,
control, inspection, analysis and sorting technologies. Mr
Druce’s role is providing sales and technical support.
Mr Druce has an educational background in mechanical
engineering from Auckland University of New Zealand. He
has many years of experience in plastic injection moulding
and extrusion.
He has been working at the Sikora International base
in Peachtree, Georgia, USA, since September 2016 and
has completed a training programme at the company’s
headquarters in Bremen, Germany, where he gained in-depth
knowledge of the variety of Sikora products.
Sikora International Corp – USA
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