Your ship's automation system is 20 years old. The maker wants to sell you a new one. We find out what's actually wrong first.
Legacy marine automation — governors, remote control systems, safety systems — often outlives the engineers who originally commissioned it. When something fails, the manufacturer's easiest answer is a full system replacement: expensive, disruptive, and not always necessary.
We work at the component level. Real diagnosis on the actual fault, not a blanket recommendation built around what's easiest for the maker to support.
One precisely identified fault costs a fraction of a full retrofit.
Obsolete doesn't mean unfixable.
A ship's automation system develops a fault the crew has to work around. The manufacturer's own service engineers, increasingly unfamiliar with gear this old, often can't pin it down either.
The safe answer for them becomes: replace the whole system and the cabling. Understandable from their side — but rarely the cheapest fix, and not always the correct one.
Often fixable — with the right component, not a full replacement
Legacy governors, remote control systems, and safety systems are usually still built from ordinary, sourceable parts underneath — even when the manufacturer calls the whole system obsolete.
Real diagnosis, done properly, narrows a chronic fault down to the specific component actually causing it. Where evidence supports a precise repair, it can cost a fraction of a full system-and-cabling retrofit.
Exactly what happens
Send what you have
Service history, alarm logs, photos of the equipment — whatever exists. No need to reconstruct the whole story first.
Locate the actual cause
We work from the evidence that exists: alarm history, equipment photos, service records, measurements, and — where available — schematics or prior drawings. Step by step, we distinguish the actual cause, whether it is a component, cabling, configuration, power quality, or signal path. Not a guess and not a generic parts list.
One clear recommendation
What's actually wrong, what it costs to fix precisely, and how that compares to the manufacturer's own quote.
Deep experience with the equipment other engineers have moved on from
Decades of hands-on marine electronics and automation work — governors, remote control systems, safety systems, and the analog signal paths underneath them that most current service engineers never learned in the first place.
No platform change assumed. No transformation project. Just an honest answer to "what's actually wrong," and what it takes to fix it properly.
Bring the fault that keeps coming back
Tell us what is failing, what has been tried, and what the manufacturer has said. Send whatever evidence exists—alarm wording, nameplate photos, service history, correspondence, or old drawings. A few lines are enough to start — leave your email and we'll reply personally.