KCI Nominated for IRO Innovation Prize
Dutch based engineering firm KCI has been nominated with its new logistics tool TILT for the IRO Innovation prize. This prestigious prize for offshore innovations will be handed out on 7 April during the IRO innovation seminar which will be held at the Shell Upstream Research & Development Centre in Rijswijk. Together with three other companies, KCI will present its innovation during this seminar. The participants of the seminar will choose the overall winner.
Pascal Ferier, general manager of KCI, sees a big future for TILT, which is an abbreviation for Transport and Installation Logistics Tool. ‘’Offshore wind is a relative new offshore sector. We truly believe that TILT will help project developers and EPIC contractors to better control the installation process and save significantly on project costs, which is really the biggest challenge in this market.” Ferier continues: “In an unprecedented simple way, early decisions in multi million euro projects can be supported by well founded arguments and data. Used in an early stage in the project, TILT can optimise the project by making the right choices while reducing project costs substantially.”
Research and Development manager Boudewijn van Gelder, who developed the tool in house, adds: “Tilt simulates a wind farm installation project, whereby the dynamic interactions of vessels, harbour access or buffer sizes are computed in small time steps. ” The programme gives offshore wind developers and EPIC contractors in depth insight in the logistics process and its most stringent bottlenecks. Subsequently, it gives hard data on expected project duration and costs. “