ASD Tugboat Safety Controller retrofit to achieve company’s slogan: “Innovations for Renovations

How to achieve this slogan and implement the RASHBM ASD Tugboat Safety Controller system to renovate it?

An obsolete Japanese made ASD (Azimuth Stern Drive) Tugboat ASD Tugboat targeted to retrofit the Safety Controller system.

The captioned maritime vessel’s safety and control systems are our targets to improve her maneuverability.

The maritime vessel’s controller & safety system’s design & structure improved, to combat against exigent situations & relevantly bring about a hassle-free operation.

To hire an ingenuity to implement marine use strategies in the ZMZ-0025xx series software over the robust platform from SIEMENS.

In the implemented hierarchy, a marine & class approved SIEMENS PLC nominated to improve the safety structure as the top layer.

The medium layer hierarchy is consisting of the Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMIs) & control levers.

The HMI(s) enable the engineers & operators to preform required settings over the parameters & monitor the data over the machineries.

The lower layer hierarchy is consisting of the buffer amplifiers, transmitters, sensors and actuators.

How should we design the remote control and safety system and relevantly arrange the hierarchy?

The RCS-ZMZ-002576-79 is a versatile compact controller comprising SIEMENS Marine-approved and class-approved PLC.

ASD Tugboat Safety Controller system implemented an intelligent and relevantly a robust-controller located on top of control hierarchy.

Fantastically advanced and strong marine strategies embedded and have formed the zmz-0025xx series software.

The ZMZ software embedded marine use wise and intelligent strategies over the SIEMENS marine-approved platform.

This process shall bring about a hassle-free operation to the maritime vessel’s staff & owners.

The ZMZ-0025xx series software is a cutting-edge technologically advanced software over the targeted vessels.

In the targeted ASD’s automations, the zmz-0025xx is driving two sets of  the azimuth-thrusters from prominent maker SCHOTTEL.

The zmz-0025xx series software hired to renovate an Offshore-Tug (ASD) to successfully got the PRS classification-society ‘s approvals.

Upon performing the sea-trial, the captioned vessel delivered to the owner as one of the recently attended maritime vessels in the DMC (Dubai Maritime City) .

Upgrade & Renovation Policies

  • As an owner, you may choose to do repairing an obsolete safety & control system (and consequently continue to have an obsolete system) or enter to a marine cutting edge technology world.
  • As the second option (of course as a cost economical way to invest) you have another fantastic option to go through a PLC-based ship automations, which would be tailormade to the vessel’s characteristics & improving her maneuverability as well.

Renovation Process Improvement

In the marine renovation process, owners are mainly concentrating to overhaul engines & propulsion system, including hull plating & repair.

Unfortunately owners are neglecting to consider the automations as the central core of improvement, as an advanced investment.


As a matter of fact, what is determinative in between is the marine-safety & marine-automation upgrade to any maritime vessel to makes it more fascinating to be hired through the contractors.


Every engines & propulsion systems can be repaired & considered as a mechanically trusted means to run the vessel.

As a major rule, neglecting to upgrade the safety & control over any vessel, definitely leading to an unexpected loss of investment over them.

What you shall gain as an owner?

Nowadays, we’re witnessing personally issued errors & mistakes to maintain the mechanical means, including the miss-operations as well & in a vast variety through ship staff.

To shift from an obsolete & conventional safety & remote control system (normally those are exclusively limited to some makers) to an technologically advanced system & providing a cutting-edge-technology to the maritime vessel, we offer owners the zmz0025xx series under prominent maker platform from SIEMENS:

The RCSZMZ-002576-79 recently are being released to bring about full automations over Azimuth Stern Drive vessels (ASD).

Retrofitted RASHBM successor consul 2 x 360 degree modernized controllers