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the new lever of command Azimut of ABB has won Red Dot Design Award
The instrument affords to maneuver giant cruise ships with a precision to the decimeter
September 12, 2013
Helvetic group ABB has adjudicated the prestigious prize "Red Dot" 2013 for the design of producing in acknowledgment to the new lever of command Azimut that affords to maneuver giant cruise ships with a precision to the decimeter. A jury of 37 experts to international level has estimated produced introduced from more than 1.800 companies, coming creators and architects from 54 nations estimating the levels of innovation, functionality, quality, ergonomics, duration and aspects legacies to the environmental impact.
"The new design of the lever - Veli-Matti Reinikkala has explained, in charge of the Division Process Automation of ABB - is conceived in order to improve some is uses it that the ergonomic aspects, increasing of the levels of safety. To win this prestigious prize - it has added - has meant very for us and demonstrates the attainment of our objectives in the creation of a distintiva, clear interface and of easy I use by the staff, that it offers a precise and expectable control for various types of ships".
ABB has emphasized that the command lever Azimut is so precise from being able to maneuver with facility enormous ships: for example the cruise ship Allure of the Seas, long 360 meters and from the gross weight more than 200.000 tons, with the lever Azimut can turn completely of 360° on own axis.
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