In December 2018, members of the international knowledge and research hub SFI Offshore Mechatronics have visited the Rexroth cylinder factory in Boxtel, the Netherlands, to learn all about condition monitoring features in Rexroth hydraulic and electro-mechanic cylinders. Find out more about Bosch Rexroth large cylinders at https://lnkd.in/g99Hb8m.
Award winners Thomas Meyer and Rune Schlanbusch for submitting innovative idea.
Award winners Joacim Dybedal and Atle Aalerud for submitting innovative idea.
Keynote speaker day 1: Hans-Michael Krause, Director Market and Product Management PLC and IoT Systems, Bosch Rexroth, Title of the talk: “OPC UA over TSN in Industrial Automation”
Lunch on Day 1, Campus Grimstad.
Poster session, Day 1.
Poster session, Day 1.
WP1-Leader Torben Ole Andersen in deep thought.
Lasse Schumann (Bosch Rexroth), Sondre Sanden Tørdal (UiA) and Jing Zhou (UiA) testing out the Xbox controller for the vessel-to-vessel-crane experiment.
Poster Session, Day 2.
WP5-Leader Thomas Meyer (Teknova), Condition Monitoring Techniques.
SFI Offshore Mechatronics, Group Photo, Day 2.
WP2 and WP4-Leader, Olav Egeland (NTNU): Motion Compensation and Modeling and Simulation.
PhD Candidate Shaun Falconer (UiA) presenting his work on fibre ropes using the CBOS machine.
WP6-Leader Baltasar B. Lozano (UiA), Data Analytics, IT Integration and Big Data.
Keynote Speaker, Day 2, Arnt Aske (GCE NODE) challenging the researchers in SFI Offshore Mechatronics to become more innovative and customer focused.
PhD Candidate Atle Aalerud (UiA) demonstrating his experimental work on 3D point clouds and autonomy.
The WP1 participated in the workshop DFP17 (Digital Fluid Power 2017) in Aalborg, Denmark, September 7-9 with all the members of the work package (Viktor Hristov Donkov, Sondre Nordås, Daniel Hagen, Torben Ole Andersen, and Morten Kjeld Ebbesen) and a guest of the WP Damiano Padovani. The workshop was dedicated to the different aspects of digital hydraulic. The workshop included 67 participants with the majority from Europe, and the industry was well represented. The WP presented two papers and received valuable feedback.
http://www.dfp17.et.aau.dk/
September 27. the WP5 Reference Group met in NOV location and discussed the following topics:
WP 5.4 “Influence of wave height on the reliability of an offshore winch” (PhD candidate: Achim Feldermann & Lothar Wöll)
WP 5.5 “Welded joints failure prediction: experimental set up” (PhD candidate: Zbigniew Jakub Mikulski)
WP 5.3 “1D model for thermal properties in fiber ropes and hysteresis model for creep” plus “Update on the rope test rig” (Dr. Espen Oland)
WP 5.2 “Acoustic measurements in metallic dog bones and steel wire ropes, development of a new condition indicator” (Dr. Rune Schlanbusch)
WP 5.1 “Review of Methods for Condition Monitoring of Large, Slow-Rotating Roller Element Bearings” (PhD candidate: Martin Hemmer)
The group consisted of 30 participants from most partners of the SFI .
The rope seminar was sold out and attracted 50 delegates from Urdal Services AS, MacGregor Norway AS, Cameron Sense AS, MHWirth AS, National Oilwell Varco Norway, DNV GL, Siem Offshore AS, AXTech AS, Bexco, Maersk Supply Service AS, TTS Bergen, Rolls-Royce Marine, Red Rock AS, W. Giertsen Services AS, TTS Marine AS, Ropeblock B.V., John Dahle Skipshandel AS and DEP Engineering.
During the seminar individual feedbaxck was collected from all the participants to the following questions:
* Do you want us to organise a 2nd rope seminar? 84% of the attendees responded yes, 8% no and 8% had no opinion.
* Will you prioritise the 2nd seminar? 84% responded yes, 16% no.
* Have you enjoyed the seminar? 8% gave the top mark, 55% gave next best.
* Have you learnt anything new in this seminar? 31% stated that their knowledge improved greatly, while 62% stated that they learnt a lot.
* Selected quotation from one of the participants: “For rope enthusiasts like me, this is like being at a Jimmy Hendrix concert, for engineers. To dip into the knowledge of some of the most competent rope specialists in the world, is highly rewarding”, Kai Ingvald Flateland, Senior Engineer at MacGregor Norway.
Sign up for the conference at: https://eras.uia.no/reg.php?id=1626 (SFI Offshore Mechatronics only, NORCOWE has a separate registration site).
Place: Campus Grimstad
Dates: May 10-11, 2016
Day 1 until 13:20 is open for everyone. The rest of the conference is for partners in SFI Offshore Mechatronics only.
Day 1:
09:15 – 10:00 Registration in the reception area, Campus Grimstad. Poster session + guided tour of the Motion-Lab
10:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session.
10:00 – 10:50 NORCOWE by Centre Director Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa. Presentation of Hywind Scotland Pilot Park) by Anne Fausa, Statoil.
10:50 – 11:00 Overview SFI Offshore Mechatronics, Geir Hovland
11:00 – 11:20 Jan Martin Grindheim, Macgregor: Transfer of competence from oil and gas sector to offshore wind.
11:20 – 11:40 Åsmund Hjulstad – Automated Drilling Control at Statoil.
11:40 – 12:00 Nina Kyllingstad, Agderforskning: results from network analysis of NODE companies and subsea companies in Rogaland.
12:00 – 13:00 Common Lunch
13:00 – 16:00 Parallel sessions (NORCOWE and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).
13:00 – 13:20 Prof. Ian Jennions, Selected results from the IVHM Centre, Cranfield University. See http://tinyurl.com/jjqp97k
13:20 – 14:30 WP2 Motion Compensation (Torstein Myhre, Geir Ole Tysse, Sondre Sanden Tørdal)
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:00 WP2 Continued and WP4 Modelling and simulation (Olav Egeland, Houxiang Zhang)
16:15 – 17:00 Demo in the Motion-Lab + Poster session
17:00 – 18:30 Conference Dinner on Campus
19:00 Bus transport and guided visit to the Maritime Museum
Day 2:
08:30 – 12:00 Parallel sessions (NORCOWE and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).
08:30 – 10:00 WP1: Drives (Morten Kjeld Ebbesen, Torben Ole Andersen) and WP3: Robotics and Autonomy (Geir Hovland, Jan-Einar Gravdal, Houxiang Zhang)
10:00 – 10:30 Prof. Rolf Johansson, Lund University: Industrial Robots, Skills and Work-Space Sensing.
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 WP5: Monitoring Techniques (Thomas Meyer, Rune Schlanbusch, Einar Oland, Felix Strassburger/Achim Feldermann)
12:00 – 13:00 Common Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Parallel sessions (NORCOWE and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).
13:00 – 13:30 WP7: Technology Vision (Anne Grete Ellingsen)
13:30 – 14:00 WP6: Data Analytics, IT Integration and Big Data (Baltasar Beferull Lozano)
14:15 – 15:00 WP1-WP6 Reference Group Meetings. C4 041, 043 and 095.
15:15 – 16:00 Demo in the Motion-Lab + Poster session
16:15 Common bus transport from Campus Grimstad to Kristiansand Kjevik Airport (KRS)
A special Offshore Technology edition of the journal MIC will be produced in connection with this conference. See the Call For Papers.
We recommend staying at Scandic Grimstad, reservation code: BUNI090516
Tentative agenda:
11:45-12:30: registration and lunch at MacGregor, Andøya, Kristiansand
12:30 – 12:40: Welcome and administrative status update: recruitment status on the fiber rope PhD, presentation of a new activity and PhD student: 5.5, Predicting the fatigue damage evolution in components and welded joints
12:40 – 13:10: Monitoring big bearings, an overview of the technologies and techniques (PhD candidate: Martin Hemmer, 20min .ppt, 10 min questions)
13:10 – 13:40: Rolling contact fatigue in large turret roller bearings, the Dang Van Criterion (PhD candidate: Zbigniew Jakub Mikulski, 20min .ppt, 10 min questions)
13:40-13:55: Coffee break & informal discussions
13:55- 14:25: Winch lifetime prediction, an update on the activities since the last reference group (PhD candidate: Achim Feldermann, 20min .ppt, 10 min questions)
14:25-14:50: Fiber and steel ropes – progress on the research front, progress on the test rig design, plans of activity in 2016 (Dr. Rune Schlanbusch and Dr. Espen Oland, 20 min .ppt, 5 min questions)
14:50-15:00: Coffee break & informal discussions
15:00-15:30: Big bearing, further data and analytics (Dr. Eric Bechhoefer, 20 min .ppt, 5 min questions)
15:30- 15:40: SFIWP5 Booklet presentation
15:40-15:50: AOB & wrap up
Conference on Autonomy, Sola, 16-17 March, 2016. Registration at http://www.nfaplassen.no/arrangementer/conference-on-autonomy-2016. SFI Offshore Mechatronics WP3 is one of the co-organisers.
Place: Campus Grimstad, Norway. Auditorium A2 135.
Date: November 19, 2015
Time: 09:00 – 11:30 (Part 1, Open) and 12:30-16:00 (Part 2, Closed)
45 participants attended the first annual SFI Offshore Mechatronics conference on Campus Grimstad. The first part consisted of 4 open presentations while the second part (for SFI partners only) presented the current status of the 7 work-packages. The program for the conference was as follows:
Part 1:
09:00 – 09:30 – Violet Leavers (CEO), V4L Group, UK: New Trends in Condition Based Monitoring.
09:30 – 10:00 Torben Andersen (Professor, AAU): Results from the Fluid Power and Mechatronics Systems Lab at Aalborg University.
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00 Anne Grete Ellingsen (CEO GCENode): Integrated operations next phase – The service providers and equipment suppliers integrated in the drilling and operations in real-time.
11:00 – 11:30 Jan-Einar Gravdal (Senior Research Scientist) and Kristin Flornes (Senior Vice President), IRIS: A) Presentation of the NORTEX Data Science Cluster, B) Lessons learnt from the mid-term evaluation of SFI DrillWell.
Lunch 11:30 – 12:30
Part 2 (for SFI partners only):
Presentation of the 2016 plans for the individual work-packages WP1-WP7.
WP7 12:30 – 13:00
WP1 13:00 – 13:30
WP2/4 13:30 – 14:00
Break 14:00 – 14:30
WP3 14:30 – 15:00
WP5 15:00 – 15:30
WP6 15:30 – 16:00
Dinner from 16:15
The Norwegian Association of Automatic Control (NFA) organises a conference on Autonomy, March 16-17, 2016 in Stavanger. See Call For Papers at the link above. The conference is relevant for WP3 in SFI Offshore Mechatronics.
