`Jumbo engines for jumbo ships`.
This is the subject of the CIMAC day on the SMM 2000 in Hamburg, September 28.
`Diesel engine manufacturers have increased the output per cylinder and reduced specific weights of their engines while owners and shipyards require more reliability at lower costs` says the CIMAC Vice President for Technical Papers in his invitation letter.

This Forum should help to reduce the operating risk by more Diesel Safety, i.e. applying Diesel engine security measures. The Forum is initiated by reason of the recent catastrophes happened on large Diesel engines due to the lack of extended Know-how, concerning the early recognition of a damage development to ensure a higher engines disposability due to less repair expenditure.

One of the most important security measure is the Oil Mist Detection (OMD). The Forum is intended to bring some more light on the background of both theory and practice of Oil Mist Detection (OMD) as well as prevention of disasters in engine rooms endangering the general reliability.

In opposite to the destroying property of Oil Mist i.e. in the form of a crankcase explosion, it is as upcoming Oil Mist in an early stage even distinguished to indicate a beginning deficiency in lubrication. The Forum intends generally to deepen the understanding about these Oil Mist phenomena.

Furthermore the Forum shall help the participants to find the experts Know-how and vice versa to complete the experts knowledge by the participants information of practise experience around combustion engines which will be collected, evaluated and prepared by the experts for the availability to every Forum page visitor

Invited to participate in the forum are all individuals on board and land, in the industry, the experts in research and classification, development and insurance, students and especially all people being related to the safe operation of large Diesel engines regarding the avoidance of expensive damage often caused by poor lubrication problems.

The Forum's launch will be on September 26, 2000 on the occasion of the SMM 2000 International Trade Fair in Hamburg / Germany. The preliminary duration of this FORUM is foreseen to be of ca. 20 weeks.