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State-of-art automation for world class Cruise ships from PEMAMEK Aker Yards Turku shipyard is currently working to improve throughput capacity and productivity. The reason for this is clear: the last Freedom Class vessel will be finished in the spring of 2008, after which Aker Yards will concentrate on a new cruise ship class: Genesis. Genesis Class vessels will be approximately 50% larger than Freedom Class vessels. Oilon Marine Burners Since year 1963 A remarkable part of Finland’s maritime cluster is Pemamek, a provider of revolutionary shipbuilding production automation solutions which improve productivity and quality. Aker Yards’ one of latest investment, PEMA SWP22000-8 welding station was designed for the dou- W e are one of the leading burner manufacturers for ble fillet welding of stiffeners on the panels. The station marine industry. has eight independently-programmable welding carriag- Common application for Oilon pressure jet marine es functioning in pairs, each of which contains an ESAB burner is 1 to 8 ton/h steam boiler, although burners are AristoMig 500 Tandem MAG welding head, with ancil- also suitable for hot water boilers and thermal oil heat- lary equipment. The system is off-line programmable and ers. We can also supply steam atomizing burners up to its graphic user interface is the Pema WeldControl soft- 80 ton/h boilers (63 MW). ware, which can be used to program each carriage’s weld- Our burners are suitable for nearly every possible fu- ing areas after reading the panel geometry data and the el used in marine industry, from non sulphur light fuel oils welding parameters are selected from the database. Nu- up to 700 cSt at 50 °C heavy fuel oil. We can also man- merical control is used to control the motion. Individually age sludge combustion. programmable welding carriage pairs allow for the versatile welding of profiles, such as chain and staggered in- EASY COMMISSIONING termittent welding, unwelded areas, profile openings and Our burners are built for easy commissioning. All major selection of welding parameters during welding as well components are mounted on the burner, which makes as high productivity, as the welding speed on small fillet commissioning work quick and easy. Also all of the elec- welds is nearly 2 m/min. Furthermore Aker is using sev- trical connections are placed on top of the burner. eral others PEMA production lines and stations like robotised welding and cutting systems. ■ WHY TO CHOOSE OILON MARINE BURNER? • We have more than 40 years experience on heavy fuel oil combustion, which insures our burner’s reliability. • We have delivered burners for marine industry since year 1963. • We use high quality components from international suppliers. • We have world wide service network. ■ For more information, p