Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Electronics System Division, has successfully developed and delivered an Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for the indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, for the Indian Navy.
This system includes a state-of-the-art Automatic Power Management System. Various directorates of the Indian Navy and Cochin Shipyard participated in the final integrated Factory Acceptance Test (IFAT) Protocol.
A BHEL release said that designed, manufactured and tested at BHEL, jointly with GE-Avio (Italy), IMPS is a technology-intensive, unique and sophisticated Distributed Control System for real-time monitoring and control of ship’s propulsion, power management, damage control, CCTV, personnel location, equipment health monitoring, auxiliary control, tank-level indication, on-board training system, dynamic simulation model and other simulators.
