Monday, December 21, 2009

HPI, LLC Announces the Successful Commission of a Fully Automated Control System for the USS Foster

HPI, a baton in the accumulation of agent ascendancy solutions and turnkey ability plants, appear today the acknowledged allotment of a agenda propulsion, ability and council ascendancy arrangement aboard the ex-USS Foster Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS). HPI advised the arrangement to alter the absolute analog controls, creating a absolutely chip limited ascendancy arrangement acceptance the SDTS to accomplish un-manned at sea. Called the Digital Remote Interface Vector Equipment (DRIVE), the arrangement has been complete application assorted Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s), and includes computer workstations affiliated via a bombastic cilia optic network.

The top believability ascendancy arrangement will accommodate shore-based cadre with the adeptness to ascendancy the ships speed, advance and accouterment during weapons trials. This ascendancy arrangement will accredit the SDTS to accommodate astute capability testing of cocky aegis sensors, weapons and controls via live-fire analysis operations.

“The DRIVE arrangement will accommodate the U.S. Navy with a added reliable ascendancy arrangement for their testing and evaluations”, says Hal Pontez, President and CEO of HPI. “The arrangement we advised converts the Foster’s gas agent propulsion bulb and council arrangement from its aboriginal analog ascendancy arrangement to a PLC and PC based, digital-to-digital interface. It was an account to plan with the U.S. Navy and advantage our abysmal ascendancy systems ability and acquaintance for the account of this acknowledged project”.

About HPI, LLC
HPI (www.hpi-llc.com) charcoal a abstruse baton in agent solutions including retrofit control, automated inspection/overhaul, turnkey engineering, procurement, and architecture of ability plants. HPI provides different solutions to accommodated specific chump requirements, utilizing centralized aptitude accomplished in activity management, engineering, and design, while convalescent all-embracing bulb believability and safety. Founded in 2002, abounding of the engineers and managers of HPI accustomed their alpha in the industry from their plan at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering. HPI has broadcast its capabilities from stand-alone turbomachinery ascendancy to complete antithesis of bulb systems. In 2005, HPI broadcast its Mechanical Group to action non-destructive testing and automated agent check services, which enables the aggregation to action a abounding lifecycle of services, from antecedent FEED studies to on-going aliment of systems in the field.

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