Royal IHC boosts asset performance in the marine industry with condition monitoring
Royal IHC, headquartered in the Netherlands, develops and supplies vessels, equipment, and integrated solutions for demanding marine and offshore applications. By implementing advanced condition monitoring technology from SPM Instrument, the company strengthens asset reliability and long-term performance across its portfolio.
Operating in sectors such as dredging, offshore, mining, and defence, Royal IHC designs and delivers complex machinery that must perform reliably in challenging environments. Ensuring high availability of critical rotating equipment is therefore essential, particularly when assets operate in remote locations or under continuous load.
To support this requirement, Royal IHC has implemented condition monitoring technology from SPM Instrument, combined with seamless system integration. The solution enables structured monitoring of machinery condition data and provides clear insight into developing faults, supporting proactive maintenance and improved operational reliability.
Royal IHC has successfully developed a data management system that can transfer operational, maintenance, and condition data to the vessels' SCADA systems and, if desired, to cloud-based solutions. Derived from SPM's Intellinova Parallel EN online system, Condmaster Ruby analysis software, and vibration transducers, Royal IHC created a smooth dataflow to showcase health scores for rotating equipment's most common fault modes.
SPM Instrument Netherlands has supported Royal IHC in defining system requirements and configuring Condmaster Ruby, as well as integrating measuring results into the SCADA environment. This integration ensures uninterrupted access to condition data across a wide range of asset types produced by Royal IHC, including installations operating in remote areas.
Standardizing condition monitoring solutions for different types of assets, such as dredge and jet pumps, winches, tensioners, thrusters, and submerged installations, presented a significant challenge. Their adoption of the Condmaster ecosystem has been instrumental in streamlining data collection from multiple sources into a unified platform. The platform includes data like oil analysis, vibration, and process parameters. This approach ensures efficient data transfer to other systems, improving asset availability and reducing downtime.
Standardising condition monitoring across different assets, such as dredge and jet pumps, winches, tensioners, thrusters, and submerged installations, presented a significant challenge. By adopting the Condmaster ecosystem, Royal IHC has streamlined data collection from multiple sources into a unified platform, incorporating oil analysis, vibration, and process parameters. This approach supports efficient data transfer to other systems, improved asset availability, and reduced downtime.
Through the implementation of SPM’s condition monitoring equipment and seamless communication with planned maintenance systems, Royal IHC aims to establish condition-based maintenance from the start of an asset’s operational life. The approach supports reliable marine and offshore operations while strengthening long-term asset performance.