Bosch Rexroth Biggest Assignment In Boxtel

Bosch Rexroth Biggest Assignment In Boxtel  
The request of biggest assignment of lifting a 48,000 ton platform in open sea came from Allseas, an offshore specialist. A specially designed ship to lift entire offshore platforms off their piles in a single movement, for which Allseas had developed in-house a complete motion compensation system and associated control system. Allseas also wrote the software for the principle behind the motion system. Then they asked Bosch Rexroth to further develop the design of the hydraulics and the arrangement of specific components of these lifting beams, and to supply specialist hydraulic components and drive systems.

Ron van den Oetelaar, Managing Director of Bosch Rexroth Benelux  said, '' Apart from a few catalog components, such as valves and plunger pumps, most of the components and subsystems were developed specifically for this ship. This includes cylinders, control devices, generators, mounting plates, etc. The local digital control systems that we supplied for the lifting beams were also developed specifically for this assignment. That applies to both the control hardware and the software. During the design process, we made intensive use of powerful simulation tools to predict system behavior, finite element methods to compute critical parts and compon