New Customer-focused Solutions were in the Spotlight in Thermo King’s Booth
The Thermo King Marine team greeted customers in Amsterdam in late November 2017 at the industry’s biggest tradeshow to share our continued commitment to delivering exceptional products and services.
“From the beginning, our technology was built to deliver our customers with the highest efficiency, maximum cooling capacity and lowest total cost of ownership,” said Michel Gadron, commercial leader at Thermo King Marine. “At this year’s Intermodal Europe show we showcased our customer-centric approach to marine transport refrigeration and demonstrated that we accompany our customers through the entire lifecycle of their reefers, continuously trying to improve and upgrade the capabilities and efficiency of their fleet.”
New Energy Logging Software
Leading the messaging was the introduction of Thermo King’s latest enhanced energy logging software for MAGNUM PLUS® reefers, which is being built into all reefers as standard beginning this year, and is fully retrofittable for all existing MAGNUM PLUS reefers through an easy software update.
The new power logging feature will help fleets better understand how various commodities, routes and operating profiles affect the amount of energy consumed by the reefer unit, and ultimately the cost associated with that energy. Fleets will be able to use that knowledge to adjust shipping practices and customer offerings in order to meet efficiency and operational goals.
“The ability to add a power logging feature through software enhancements in our controller puts valuable data directly at the user’s fingertips, providing energy consumption details for trips and total reefer life, and giving fleets the ability to optimize operations and offerings accordingly,” said Brian O’Donoghue, global marine product manager.
The feature gives customers the ability to see the total power usage of a reefer, measured in kilowatts (kW) per hour. The power draw is logged and viewable from both our MP-4000 controller and the standard download file.
- Via Controller – The current power draw is tracked continually through the controller and users can easily view total trip power draw data including the total hours/days of operation and average kW per hour consumed by selecting the trip start date.
- Via Download – Through the LogVIEW tool, users are able to view the power draw of the reefer every hour – or other specified measurement period, through the standard download file. Data points included in each data log file are standardized, and include instant power draw and cumulative data from trip and the lifetime of the unit. The total power draw of the reefer over its lifetime can be viewed with data going back to the reefer in-service date or the date of the power logging software retrofit.
R-452A Refrigerant Update
The team also took the opportunity to share updates on our next-generation, low global warming potential (GWP) R-452A refrigerant, which we introduced in 2014 as a replacement for R-404A in marine applications. Two customers, TITAN Containers and DFDS shared comments on why they are incorporating R-452A into their fleets. See the story in our 20/40 customer newsletter, which was featured in Thermo King’s stand.
