
The Sesam 2011 release attracted much attention at the DNV Software Conference for Sesam on 7-9 November in Hangzhou, China, where representatives from the major maritime and ocean engineering research institutes, yards and design companies attended.

Orbit+ IDS, the comprehensive plant integrity management software produced by DNV Software, has been developed and implemented around the world starting with the major releases 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 on windows platform. The new release of Orbit+ IDS 4.30 fully running on Web was released 15 October 2011.

DNV are proud to announce that the Unified Dispersion Model used in Phast, the world's leading process hazard analysis software tool has been reviewed by the US Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and approved for use in LNG siting applications.

DNV’s Sesam software has been extended with a tailor-made solution for design of offshore wind turbine structures addressing the industry’s need to account for the combined effect of wind and hydrodynamic loads. The analysis functionality offered is in accordance with the DNV Offshore Standard DNV-OS-J101 Design of Offshore Wind Turbines.

The Sesam 2011 DVD is a major release of several Sesam applications. It contains many new features that will lead to improved efficiency and opens for additional analysis work not possible in previous versions. Sesam now fully supports Windows 7 in addition to Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Earlier this year INEOS ABS, Ohio, USA implemented our Orbit+ IDS software with the standard package including Orbit Onshore, integration with Risk Based Inspection assessment and interface with SAP.

This is a significant update to the Phast product suite containing many improvements as well as a new Study Manager utility for combining risk results from multible studies.

With the June 2011 release Nauticus Machinery provides a unified environment for all calculation tools, with several re-designed tools and new features introduced.

Earlier this year, the Institute of Engineering & Ocean Technology (IEOT), Mumbai, the technical services wing of India’s largest corporation, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), has placed an order on DNV Software for upgrading and expanding their existing suite of Sesam software.

Ninety participants came from across Europe to the annual two-day DNV Software User Conference at Høvik early this month. They learned about new features in Sesam and Nauticus, attended workshops, gave feedback based on user experience and strengthened ties with colleagues in the industry.

DNV Software held a two day open training course in Shanghai and a one day seminar at the Nor-Shipping exhibition in Oslo in connection with the upcoming Nauticus Machinery summer release.

Earlier this year, DNV Software opened a brand new customer portal for Safeti users, where customers could download software, user manuals and access an extensive documentation library. Now the service is being extended to include customers with maintenance contracts for the product lines: Sesam, Nauticus and Safeti.

The new versions of DeepC, GeniE and HydroD focus on providing more flexibility in performing design analyses and on giving our users more advanced analysis options to fine-tune the design. We have increased Sesam’s coverage to also include design of umbilicals.

With the April 2011 release Nauticus Machinery is supporting both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows 7, and the reporting features are in compliance with Microsoft Office 2010.

GeniE users will have the benefit of some new important features, such as FEM import, beam deflections and property update for the mesh, included in the current 5.3 release.

With the January 2011 release Nauticus Hull is supporting both Windows 7 and Vista and all spreadsheets and report functionality is upgraded for compliance with Office 2007 and 2010.

We are pleased to announce new releases of the Safeti Performance Forecasting products focusing on usability improvements and enhanced reliability related logistics capabilities.

Updates to the calculation tools for shaft alignment making new results fully compatible with results in 2004-verison, improved reporting features and user interface are among the new features available in the February 2011 release of Nauticus Machinery.

DNV Software are pleased to announce the launch of a new Customer Portal. The portal provides access to downloads, an extensive documentation library, frequently asked questions and a system for managing your technical support enquiries and the ability to submit technical support enquiries into the CRM system that the DNV Software global helpdesk use.

DNV Software in Korea & Japan and Chiyoda Advanced Solutions (ChAS) signed a Software Distribution Agreement in Busan on 19 August, 2010.

DNV Energy and DNV Software have joined forces as a main sponsor of this growing Process Safety event. The theme of the Hazards XXI Symposium 2009 is process safety and environmental protection in a changing world. This theme is closely aligned with DNV’s objective to safeguard life, property and the environment.