This guide is aimed at providing a general understanding of the various types of hardware devices that form the core of information processing systems for ship and marine use. Ship and marine information processing systems require specific devices in order to perform automated tasks ...

This guide illustrates the steps and considerations involved with digital data acquisition. While analog recording of wear and friction data has been in the past, digital data acquisition and storage is used extensively. It is important that DAQ users understand how data is collected and stored a...

1.1 This software was developed to automate calculations within three ASTM standards: Practices D2777 (outlier removal section),

1.1 This specification describes the minimum computer program documentation which shall be provided by the supplier of software to the purchaser.

This guide provides a recommended transition plan for a marine software maintainer, when the maintainer is other than the supplier, to develop the capability to make extensive changes or extensions to the programs. Further, this guide provides a recommended interactive process model ...