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OCTOPUS-Office Ship Motion Analysis Software
OCTOPUS-Office - Introduction
OCTOPUS-Office is the latest development in ship motion analysis software, a modular, state-of-the-art and user-friendly software toolbox for sea-keeping analysis of ships and offshore floating structures.
It can be used as a stand-alone package, or together with OCTOPUS-Onboard.
OCTOPUS-Onboard, made by Amarcon, is designed to assist navigators with safe sea-keeping of vessels of any type, any size and in all sea and weather conditions. Since its introduction in 2003 it has proven its value as an operational support tool for container vessels, bulk-carriers, VLCC's, LNG-carriers, RoRo vessels, ferries, Heavy Lift vessels, dredgers, Offshore Construction and Support Vessels, cruise ships, navy vessels and others. OCTOPUS can be configured and customized as per user requirements.
World-leading shipping companies, such as BW Gas, CMA-CMG, Dockwise, Hapag-Lloyd, Hoegh LNG, Jumbo Shipping, NYK, Smit, SRV, Teekay and others are using OCTOPUS to facilitate safe, economic and environmental friendly navigation.
 OCTOPUS-Office - What is it?
OCTOPUS-Office, part of the OCTOPUS suite of solutions, calculates design accelerations and/or a workability of a vessel with just a few mouse clicks. The graphical user interface gives an immediate and detailed overview of the results. OCTOPUS-Office can also be used to define the vessel's operational criteria for OCTOPUS-Onboard.
OCTOPUS-Office - What does it do?OCTOPUS-Office consists of three modules, Basic, Statistics and Monte Carlo Simulation.
OCTOPUS-Office - Basic
This main module calculates the transfer functions of ship responses in waves, such as absolute and relative motions, velocities, accelerations, hull girder loads and linear combinations of responses.
It includes functionality to create 2D and 3D hull models, 2D and 3D hydrodynamic databases, Loading Conditions and Response Amplitude Operators (RAO's) on a 2D/3D hydrodynamic database and loading condition.
Analyses can be carried out with or without forward speed, in deep or shallow waters, using 2D- or 3D-hydrodynamics. Sea-state dependent nonlinear effects can be accounted for. The program features extensive possibilities for graphical and textual reporting and presentation, including export functions to MS Word and Excel.
 OCTOPUS-Office - StatisticsThis module is used to calculate short- and long-term response statistics in arbitrary wave environments, including environment modelling tools, linearised response statistics, envelope curves and workability in scatter diagrams.
OCTOPUS-Office - Monte Carlo SimulationMonte Carlo voyage simulations can be carried out using the OCTOPUS-Monte Carlo simulation module in combination with Argoss historical W3C-database. Using spectral data instead of derived wave parameters such as significant wave height, mean directions or zero-up crossing period, more accurate results are ensured, especially in multi-directional seas. Moreover, persistency effects are automatically included.
OCTOPUS-Office - How does it help?OCTOPUS-Office can assist in sea-keeping analysis and engineering studies.
When used in combination with OCTOPUS-Onboard, the shipowner office can assist ships crew in various aspects of vessel operations. These include:
- Maximizing safety of transport.
- Maximizing schedule regularity.
- Monitoring of projects and production.
- Reducing claims and insurance costs.
- Reducing costs of bunkering and reduction of emissions.
- Reducing cost of lashing.
- Improving docking planning.
- Reducing waiting time for weather windows.
- Enhancing Condition-Based-Monitoring.
- Enhancing ship/fleet benchmarking.
In addition new-building departments can benefit from improved new building requirements and engineering departments can enhance their understanding of operational limits through real-life feedback.
 The above are just some examples of the many advantages OCTOPUS-Online can offer assisting shipowners of various types of vessels and fleets with shore-based sea-keeping analysis. In addition the system is:
- User-friendly and intuitive to use; no expert knowledge required.
- Fast and reliable, resulting in significant cost-savings in engineering studies.
- Accurate and complete.
OCTOPUS-Office In Summary
OCTOPUS-Office is a powerful sea-keeping analysis tool to support vessels operations and new-building design, whether used as stand-along package or together with OCTOPUS-Onboard.
If reading the above has aroused your interest and you are a ship owner/operator keen on increasing the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of your vessel and/or fleet, feel free to contact Lambda Marine for a free demonstration at your office.
 Lambda Marine, a system integrator and solution provider, represents the Amarcon OCTOPUS suite of solutions for the Middle East.
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