November 2010
CONSOLE FOR SONAR SYSTEM
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The delivery of the CT-24 console means another milestone in the process of production of equipment for the new Spanish Navy F105. Sainsel has developed a set of products (consoles, processors and navigation systems among others) and supplied the required number of these products to equip this frigate as well as several land centres in which the development is performed of the different systems that equip the frigate. All these Sainsel’s supplies for this F105 Program represent 60 equipments in total.
Picture: CT-24 sonar console ready for delivery |
This console has been delivered to INDRA as the second unit to be used for the land support of the Sonar System and shows the new technology used in the consoles for the more modern surface ships of the Spanish Army, which is based upon the ASP (Advanced SCOMBA Processors) Processors family developed by Sainsel with the state-of-the-art of PC technology, applying the equipment practice that allows to fulfil the requirements of on board systems for military applications.
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The ASP processor unit is a pluggable module that is inserted on a rack driven by guides in the same way as a printed circuit board. It lodges in its interior a PC base board in ATX format – including the best up to date CPU available –connected to a powerful graphic card, to a card with Ethernet interface over fibre optics and to other interfaces, all this configuring a complete and autonomous process module. |
| Picture: ASP Processor Unit |
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Electronic Rack
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The CT-24 console is a multifunction console with open system architecture as well as hardware platform with integrated operating system that is ready to load and run software for process and for man/machine interface. It includes a set of components for a high performance interface (two flat panels of 20.1” with 1600x1200 resolution, two interactive touch panels, voice communication panel, sonar audio panel, alphanumeric keyboard and trackball unit), all of them distributed and organized with ergonomic criteria and lodged inside a robust chassis able to
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assure the fulfilment of the environmental and electromagnetic compatibility requisites for the on board systems. |
November 2010,
OBSOLESCENCE MANAGEMENT
The support that Sainsel offers to customers includes (among other services) continuous management of the obsolescence of the supplied equipments by means of a development of new products that are either totally compatible with them or compatible with the components in them that become obsolete; furthermore adding the benefits provided by new technologies.
This is the case of the replacement of the obsolete monitors of the RGN-651 type by modern FS02 Flat Panels developed by Sainsel which are totally compatible with those and provide significant additional advantages such us: |
- 60% decrease in energy consumption.
- An outstanding enhancement in maintainability.
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Picture: New Flat Panel FS02 versus Obsolete Monitor RGN-651
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Sainsel has supplied a set of FS02 Panels to replace the obsolete monitors RGN-651 (as these have been entering into failure condition) within the Consoles of the Platform Control System in the F100 frigates. |
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Console updated with Sainsel new FS02 Flat Panels |
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Console equipped with the obsolete RGN-651 monitors |
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As the figure shows this replacement goes beyond repairing inoperative equipments (due to failure in their monitors) because it additionally brings a significant improvement in the console ergonomics, which will represent a clear enhancement for the exploitation of the information by the users. |
Sainsel has also modernized the presentation of the Raythion Navigation Radar currently installed in the F100 frigates of the Spanish Navy, replacing its obsolete monitor by the modern Sainsel FS02 Flat Panel.
Navigation Radar Console AN/SPS73
equipped with FS02 flat panel by Sainsel
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This update also succesfully resolves the obsolescence problem and it provides a radar image flat display with a high quality. |
October 2010,
NEW CERTIFICATION OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
Image:Aenor Certification
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On 14th October 2010 Sainsel Sistemas Navales S.A.U. successfully completed the certification process of its Quality Management System according to the requirements of the norm UNE-EN 9100:2003 Aerospace series. Quality management systems. Requirements (based on ISO 9001:2000)
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Oct. 2010,
FINAL DELIVERY AT LAS PALMAS OF THE WECDIS NAV/C2S OF THE "VENCEDORA" PATROL BOAT.
After being installed during six months - including a period with real operations fighting against piracy in the Indian Ocean - the WECDIS NAV/C2S of the “Vencedora” has been finally accepted by the Spanish Navy. |
Image: Vencedora
This Sainsel system additionally includes a WECDIS console and other equipments such
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Image:CONAM NAV C2S instalation
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as Interfaces Unit, Secure AIS, Navtex and WECDIS Repeater. It has been normally functioning since last March when it was installed on board of this patrol boat. |
Oct. 2010,
WECDIS NAV/C2S AT THE SUBMARINE SCHOOL OF SPANISH NAVY.
A new WECDIS NAV/C2S has been installed at the Submarine School of the Spanish Navy. |
This will allow land training to the submarine crews about the usage and exploitation of this modern navigation system that was developed in accord to NATO STANAG 4564. The Sainsel WECDIS NAV/C2S has been equipping one of the S70 submarines since four years ago. It will equip soon the rest of the S70 series as part of a modernization program that also includes the installation of other equipments such as a new tactical table.
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Image:CONAM NAV/C2S |
September 2010,
SPANISH NAVY S 81 SUBMARINE EQUIPPED, A REALITY.
Image:CONAM SUB
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The consoles of the S81 combat systems are already in the Navantia shipyard at Cartagena (Spain), ready for their integration onboard.
The seven multifunction consoles CONAM SUB supplied by Sainsel -which equip the combat system of the S80 submarines- form an integrated system platform that includes all the resources of the man/machine interface as well as the ones of the sonar process and of the ship tactical data, given the high integration degree of this modern combat system. Therefore these consoles are leading this kind of systems in the world
This console set is additional to other three sets previously delivered by Sainsel to SAES (Cartagena), to FABA (San Fernando-Cádiz, Spain) and to Lockheed Martin (Manassas - Virginia – U.S.A.) that are used for development and for testing the combat system integration. |
Sept. 2010,
IBSC for the ALHDs
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BAE Systems Australia Ltd has awarded a contract to Sainsel for the supply of the Integrated Bridge Consoles of the two Australian Navy LHD ships, currently under construction. |
A very significant part of these LHD ships is being built in the shipyard of Navantia at Ferrol (Spain) where they have been developed starting from the design of the Spanish LHD ship Juan Carlos I.
This contract represents a new challenge for Sainsel in which our company commits to supply a broad range product integrating a number of systems for navigation and for platform control that are provided by several vendors, fulfilling the quality standards of BAE systems -one the largest companies in the defence sector worldwide-. |
Pic: Firm act between BAE Systems & Sainsel |
The trust given by BAE systems to Sainsel -awarding the supply of such a critical component in these large ships as their bridge consoles- fills the Sainsel human team with pride.
Sainsel is already allocating its best resources to assure the fulfilment of the quality, time and performance goals of this contract. |
Sept. 2010,
Sainsel has supplied a WECDIS CONAM NAV/CS2 system to the Hydro-graphic Institute
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of the Spanish Navy - the official body responsible for the production and distribution of nautical cartography in Spain - to allow the performance of verification tests for the digital charts and for the AML (Additional Military Layers) that are produced by this prestigious institution of the Navy.
This supply will allow a solid and assured progress in the usage of official ENC nautical cartography as well as in the
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Photo: WECDIS Instalation at Hydro-graphic Institute |
implementation of the AML as a tool able to significantly foster the tactical navigation and the interoperability of the ships that are equipped with WECDIS according to the NATO standards.
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Sept. 2010,
Sainsel has successfully finished developing the FS20R monitor with a diagonal 24" and a resolution of 1920x1200, for stereoscopic systems of profesional 3D display.
FS20R Monitor
AUGUST 2010,
END OF THE SECOND MISSION OF THE SPANISH FRIGATE 'VICTORIA' AGAINST THE PIRACY.
