Accelleron (formerly ABB Turbocharging) has launched Turbo SmartCare, a data-enabled service agreement with an accompanying customer portal to optimise turbocharger maintenance, advise on turbocharger health and enhance opex
Turbo SmartCare will serve the medium-speed four-stroke engine market, to provide remote insights provided by the company’s engineers to the ship operator.
Accelleron said the new service is intended to move turbocharger maintenance away from the standard time-led service agreements which are defined by fixed inspection milestones, towards data-driven analysis focusing on the impact of excess emissions and reducing unnecessary expenditure on turbocharger maintenance.
Users will have round-the-clock access to fleetwide turbocharger health indicators via Loreka, a customer portal.
As part of the new offering, Accelleron provides guaranteed coverage for the duration of the service agreement, which is based on a fixed price per running hour, and covers scheduled and unscheduled maintenance with protection against unexpected events and wear on the turbochargers. Accelleron said Turbo SmartCare customers will benefit from financial predictability, enabling them to accurately plan ahead with no unexpected costs.
Accelleron head of global service product management Thorsten Bosse said, “Turbocharger data is carefully analysed by Accelleron experts, who provide deeper insights and advisories by combining analytics with our long history of engineering design experience.”
“As experts in the field of turbocharging, we provide Turbo SmartCare customers with insightful advice, for example on how to fine-tune time between overhauls (TBO) to allow alignment of the engine overhaul with that of the turbocharger. This type of agreement represents a fundamental change in how we do turbocharger servicing in our industry.”
