Duty Settings

Overview

When the engine room and engine control room are left unmanned, the engineer may designate a person on duty. Extension alarm panels are installed in the engineer’s room; the system is designed so that, when an alarm is triggered, the panel in the duty engineer’s room also sounds an alert. Previously, the selection of the duty engineer was performed using a switch on the engine control console; however, with SMS-Nexus, the duty engineer can be selected via the OPS screen.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, ensure the following requirements are met.

  • FCU/FU configuration and the corresponding I/O board configuration have been completed.

  • OPS account have been created.

Procedure

1. Start Duty Settings

Click System settings > Duty engineers.

click on duty engineer

2. Select duty control mode

Select the duty control mode. The duty control mode determines how the duty engineer is selected.

control mode selection

OPS control: Select the Duty Engineer on the OPS.

Console control: Select the Duty Engineer using the physical switch on the Engine Control Console. In this mode, Duty Engineer selection from the OPS is disabled.

3. Engineer addition

click on add engineer

Up to 16 engineers can be created.

4. Engineer name and abbreviation

Enter the engineer’s name and abbreviation.

input user name and abbreviation

Abbreviation is used to display the currently selected Duty Engineer in the OPS top bar.

5. Engineer selector signal input location (optional)

If the duty control mode is set to Console Control, select the input location of the engineer selector signal. The engineer selector signal is used to determine which engineer is on duty.

set input signal location

6. Complete engineer addition

Click Create account to complete the addition of the engineer.

7. Engineer selector signal input location edit (optional)

If you set engineer selector signal input location after creating the engineer, you can edit it at any time by clicking the Set Input Address button next to the engineer’s name.

set input signal location later

8. Start Category assignment

Click the Edit categories.

assign category1

9. Category assignment

Assign the categories to be handled by each Duty Engineer.

For example, Engineers are responsible for MACHINERY category, so only MACHINERY category would be assigned. Similarly, Officers would be assigned CARGO category.
assign category2

Edit and Delete

click the kebab menu to the right of the account and select Edit. To delete it, select Delete.

edit and delete