Electrical and Control Systems Built Around the Vessel
When a vessel depends on electrical, automation and control systems working together, the challenge is rarely confined to one component.
WTM Electrical helps vessel builders, operators, OEMs and engineering teams bring those systems together across new builds, upgrades and existing vessels.
WTM Electrical helps vessel builders, operators, OEMs and engineering teams bring electrical, automation and control systems together across new builds, upgrades and existing vessels.
Built for the people responsible for marine systems
WTM works around the application to match the priorities of vessel builders, operators, engineering teams and marine OEMs. Alongside our marine work, WTM also undertakes commercial electrical and industrial electrical installations, upgrades and service work.
The priorities are different depending on whether you are building the vessel, operating it, engineering the project or supplying the equipment. WTM works around the application by helping solve the electrical and control requirements that sit between those responsibilities. Alongside our marine work, WTM also undertakes commercial electrical and industrial electrical installations, upgrades and service work.
Vessel Builders
Bring electrical, control panels, automation and equipment interfaces together earlier in the build.
When a new vessel brings together power, controls, machinery, instrumentation and multiple suppliers, each interface can create another point of risk. WTM can support the electrical, control-panel and automation requirements around the build and help keep those parts aligned.
Talk Through Your BuildVessel Operators
Investigate faults, obsolete equipment and upgrades without assuming the whole system needs replacing.
When a system is unreliable, obsolete or no longer doing what the vessel needs, replacing everything is not always the right answer. WTM can help investigate the problem, work with the existing system and identify a practical path forward.
Talk Through the ProblemEngineers & Project Teams
Support where electrical, controls, I/O, instrumentation and equipment interfaces cross disciplines.
Some applications do not fit neatly within one discipline. WTM can work alongside engineering and project teams where electrical, controls, I/O, instrumentation and equipment interfaces need to come together.
Discuss Your ProjectMarine OEMs
Custom panels, automation and equipment interfaces built around specialist marine machinery.
Specialist marine equipment often needs an electrical and control system built around the machine rather than selected from a catalogue. WTM can support custom panels, automation, I/O and equipment integration around the OEM application.
Discuss an OEM RequirementCapability across the system
Different projects need different levels of support. WTM's value is the ability to work across several of the areas that commonly meet inside a marine electrical and control system.
Marine Electrical Systems
Electrical systems and modifications built around the vessel, equipment and application.
Electrical systems, modifications and integration around the requirements of the vessel, equipment and application. From new installations to changes within an existing system, the electrical work needs to support what the vessel actually has to do.
Switchboards & Control Panels
Custom panels and electrical assemblies designed as part of the wider control system.
Custom control panels and electrical assemblies built around the equipment they have to operate. The panel is treated as part of the wider system rather than simply an enclosure filled with components.
Explore SwitchboardsAutomation & PLC
PLC, I/O, HMI and monitoring built around what the application needs to do.
PLC, distributed I/O, HMI, monitoring and control for applications where standard equipment alone does not provide the required result. The technology matters. What the system enables matters more.
Explore AutomationSystem Integration
Bring electrical, controls, instrumentation and third-party equipment together as one system.
Bringing electrical, automation, instrumentation and third-party equipment together so the different parts of the application can operate as one system.
Explore IntegrationService & Upgrades
Trace faults, replace obsolete equipment and expand systems already in service.
Support for systems already in service includes tracing faults, replacing obsolete equipment, expanding functionality and integrating new hardware.
Explore ServiceMarine Electrical Surveying
Electrical survey support for new vessels, electrical installations and significant vessel changes.
Electrical survey support for new vessels, electrical installations and significant vessel changes.
Explore Marine Electrical SurveyingOne system. Fewer gaps between suppliers.
A marine project can involve separate electrical, panel, automation, instrumentation and equipment suppliers.
The difficult problems often sit between those scopes.
Commercial Integration
Less fragmentation. Clearer responsibility. Better system alignment.
WTM can work across multiple layers of the system, helping reduce handovers and keep the solution aligned around the application.
Less fragmentation.
Clearer responsibility.
Better system alignment.
A marine project can involve an electrician, panel builder, PLC programmer, instrumentation supplier, equipment manufacturer and commissioning team.
Each one may do their part correctly.
The difficulty often sits between those parts.
Less fragmentation.
Clearer responsibility.
Better system alignment.
Commercial Integration
Less fragmentation. Clearer responsibility. Better system alignment.
Where the project requires it, WTM can work across multiple layers of the electrical and control system to help reduce handovers, simplify communication and keep the solution aligned around the application.
Electrical systems need to match the panel. The panel needs to match the control architecture. The PLC needs the right signals. The instrumentation needs to provide usable information. The equipment needs to respond the way the control system expects.
When those responsibilities are split across separate suppliers, small assumptions can become large commissioning problems.
A practical path from problem to working system
The starting point is not a particular component or brand. It is understanding what the vessel or equipment actually needs to do.
Understand
What needs to operate, what already exists and where are the interfaces?
Define
Set the practical electrical and control approach.
Build
Prepare the required panels, assemblies and control hardware.
Integrate
Connect I/O, instrumentation, controls and equipment.
Commission
Test the system as a working application.
Support
Work from the system behaviour back to the cause when something changes.
Understand
Start with the application. What needs to operate? What already exists? What are the constraints? Where are the interfaces?
Define
Work out the practical electrical and control approach before adding unnecessary complexity.
Build
Prepare the required panels, electrical assemblies and control hardware around the application.
Integrate
Connect the control system, I/O, instrumentation and equipment so each part has the information and response it needs.
Commission
Test the system as a working application rather than simply checking individual components.
Support
When requirements change or something stops behaving as expected, work from the system back to the cause.
Got a marine electrical or control challenge that doesn't have an obvious answer?
You do not need to have the solution worked out. Tell WTM what the vessel or system is doing now and what you need it to do instead.
You do not need to have the solution worked out before making contact.
Explain what the vessel, equipment or system is doing now and what you need it to do instead. WTM can start from there.
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