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Lesson33 Basic Meaning of UMS and its function Centralized control The automatic control concept, correctly developed , results in the centralizing of control and supervisory functions . All ships have some degree of automation and instrumentation which is centered around a console . Modern installations have machinery control rooms where the monitoring of control functions take place. The use of separate room in the machinery space enables careful climate control of the space for the dual benefit of the instruments and the engineer. Control consoles are usually arranged with the more important controls and instrumentation located centrally and within easy reach, the display panels often make use of mimic diagrams. These are line diagrams of pipe systems or items of equipment which include miniature alarm lights or operating buttons for the relevant point or items in the system. A high temperature alarm at, for instance, a particular cylinder exhaust would display at the appropriate place on the mimic diagram of the engine. Valves shown on mimic diagrams would be provided with an indication of their open or closed position; pumps would have a running light lit if operating, etc. The grouping of the controllers and instrumentation for the various systems previously described enables them to become part of the complete control system for the ship. The ultimate goal in the centralized control room concept will be to perform and monitor every possible operation remotely from this location. This will inevitably results in a vast amount of information reaching the control room, more than the engineer supervisor might reasonably be expected to continuously observe. The main system enables the monitoring of certain measured variables over a set period and the reading obtained are compared with some reference or set value. Where a fault condition is located, i.e. a measured value outside the set value, audible and produced. Data recording or dat