
How to manage life cycle of vessel critical equipment
Focus on obsolescence management of control & monitoring systems
This document deals with life cycle management of Exail equipment installed onboard navy submarines/vessels.
An introduction to Virtual Application Platform (VAP) used in Exail OPSYS system and developed by MicroEJ [1] allows to understand benefit of using VAP concept in application software design and in future hardware obsolescence management.
Demonstration of obsolescence management cost reduction is done on a real autopilot calculator using VAP concept.
Analysis of recent upgrades done by Exail on three important control and monitoring systems shows the interest of integrating VAP concept from beginning of system design in order to maximize the obsolescence management cost reduction factor.