Ship and Yacht Building
Shipbuilding and yacht construction require reliable instrumentation for managing fluids, fuels, and ballast water in harsh marine environments. Sensors must handle vibration, tilt, and saltwater corrosion while ensuring vessel safety and stability.
Overview
Shipbuilding and yacht construction require reliable instrumentation for managing fluids, fuels, and ballast water across a wide range of vessel types. From commercial container ships and tankers to luxury yachts and specialized offshore vessels, level and pressure measurement systems must deliver accurate data in harsh marine environments. Onboard instrumentation faces challenges including vibration, tilt, temperature fluctuations, and saltwater corrosion. Reliable monitoring of fuel tanks, freshwater reserves, wastewater systems, and ballast tanks is critical for vessel safety, stability, and regulatory compliance. As the maritime industry moves toward cleaner propulsion technologies, new instrumentation requirements are emerging for LNG storage, battery systems, and hydrogen fuel management.
Industry Challenges
Key challenges we help address
Measuring hull compartments with complex geometries and baffles
Managing multiple fluid types across shipboard systems
Operating sensors in salt-water and high-vibration marine environments
Ensuring ballast tank monitoring for vessel stability
Meeting international marine safety classification requirements
Process Categories
Shipbuilding
Yacht Building
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Use Cases
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Anti-heeling system
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Ship heeling caused by high winds, uneven cargo loading or the forces of sharp turns is counteracted by anti-heeling systems. To counter these conditions, ballast tanks are connected to each other by...
Ballast water tanks
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The ballast water measurements in the wing and double bottom tanks go directly into the control system for the ship trim, draught and list. Since these measuring points are virtually inaccessible duri...
Bilges
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Every ship has ‘bilges’ – this is space at the lowest point of the vessel between the floor of the engine room and the bottom of the ship. A water/oil mixture collects in this bilge area, where the mi...
Cargo tank
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The levels in storage tanks, especially those on board chemical tankers must be continuously measured. This is especially important to monitor during loading and unloading operations, because of stric...
Cargo tank in a bitumen tanker
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Bitumen is transported at temperatures of around 170 °C to 190 °C. The heating is supplied via an array of multi-layered heating tubes mounted on the floor and sides of the tanks. To ensure efficient...
Cargo tanks on LNG carriers
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Liquefied gas is transported in insulated cargo tanks on LNG carriers at temperatures of -162 °C. The instrumentation used must be specially designed for these extreme temperatures. Pressure, level an...
Cavity tanks
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To extend the duration of stay at sea, every cubic centimetre of space on navy and research vessels is utilised. All available spaces and any inaccessible places on the ship are used as additional tan...
Crude oil storage tank
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Crude oil is pumped directly into the cargo tanks on board in order to separate gas, oil and water from each other using gravity. To ensure profitable utilisation of the loading capacities as well as...
Fresh water and pool water tanks
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Every yacht has different tanks on board for storing hot water, pool water and drinking water. For drinking water, an especially hygienic measuring system is required.
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