A importância do sistema de automação em navios mercante

Abstract

Over the years, the Merchant Marine has been trying to reduce their effort in machine operations on board and carrying out tasks. With the technological development, mechanisms of production control were created, presenting to the world the concept of automation. Due to the passage of time and with the increasing improvement of this technology, many exhaustive labors are done quickly and simply. Today's modern ships are so automated that some do not require the majority of the crew that was customary on older merchant ships. We can understand the great importance of automation in the midst of merchant vessels by observing that the more developed a ship's automation system is, the larger the possibilities of reducing its crew. The development relative to the increase of the speed of data transmission was the key point in the functioning of this system, bringing greater credibility and immediate correction to the promising growth in automation.