Representing an important evolution in naval ship Machinery Control System (MCS) design architecture, the Coast Guard's innovative "Coast Guard Machinery Control System" (CGMCS) introduces a highly adaptable modular approach that is purposely intended to be flexible, scalable and portable across multiple ship classes. While every ship class has distinctive MCS requirements, the flexibility in CGMCS' cohesive adaptable modules, advanced security features, low coupling to specific vendor hardware components, and common graphical user interface (GUI) enables designers to focus on CGMCS adaptation to a ship class, vice the customary large reinvestment for a completely new ship class-unique MCS development. Planned for its first tailored implementation on the National Security Cutter (NSC) WMSL-750 Class ship, CGMCS offers future naval ship classes faster MCS software development at lower technical risk and significantly lower Total Ownership Cost (TOC). This paper outlines the CGMCS design architecture and describes the benefits of its cross-ship class commonality.
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