Wärtsilä NACOS Platinum

• Common Tools and Components

The Wärtsilä NACOS Platinum system uses a common tool to perform the overwhelming majority of definition and individualization tasks for any particular installation. The system also uses a high number of common components, all of which are shared across the application areas, be it navigation or automation.

The benefit is significant from a service perspective, greatly reduced spare part count. Additionally, the use of a common software configuration tool also means that an entire installation – across application areas – can be easily managed in a consistent manner. Since this principle applies to any service intervention, in any location, throughout the lifecycle of the ship, quality issues are minimized and the continued system integrity and reliability is ensured.

• Scalable and Extensible

A governing philosophy of the Wärtsilä NACOS Platinum design is adding computing resources whenever increasing requirements. Combining this with a distributed architecture, inherent resilience becomes a defining feature: There is no potential vulnerability associated with central components, additional measurement points imposes no strain on the system. Instead, it consists of connected but self-sustaining and both physically and logically distributed process computers. Each of these carries a relatively low count of inputs and outputs, and independently executes the functions associated with those interfaces, a solution which provides a high level of autonomy. Under adverse conditions, such units will continue to perform the functions assigned, resulting in system dependability and robustness.