Electric Winches
At Arcim we have developed our own winch software for winches with following features:
- Profinet on all main components
- PLC
- HMI
- Inverters
- Encoders
- We have our own load sharing software for winches with multiple drives
- Software/safety integration with launch system
- Load monitoring winch drive motors during latch in/ out
- Docking Bullet position sensor interface
- Latch position interface
- A frame luffing postion
- A frame telescoping pos
- Active Heave Compensation restrictions during launch and Recovery sequence
- Active Heave Compensation for eg DNV subsea crane certification, for lowering/ hoisting loads from seabed
- Active tension control with load cell feedback
- Active tension control with Load cell and MRU feedback, MRU used for feed forward

Fail safe band brake on a 20 tons winch.