Abstract
The need to confirm compliance with the requirements of the Polish Defence Standards, STANAGs and shipping classification societies documents poses new challenges for manufacturers and suppliers of ship’s equipment and systems. This is related to the continuous technical evolution of electronic and electrotechnical devices, especially in the field of wireless transmission and data exchange. These challenges also apply to research laboratories, which must keep up with both the technological changes of the examined objects and the updating of requirements and reference documents. It is connected with the necessity of constant development in the area of technical facilities and competences. This paper presents an overview of the currently binding requirements for devices and systems for newly built vessels, with particular regard on the area of electromagnetic compatibility. It indicates the planned trends of changes of these requirements in relation to the technical evolution of devices. Discussion with several examples of problems and challenges faced by both equipment suppliers and research laboratories engineers were presented.