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haps known best for its rugged and technologically advanced classes of work class ROVs for the oil and gas market, provides a wide spectrum of product and service split into six business lines: ROVs, Trenchers & Robotics;

Standard and Bespoke Tooling Systems; Defense; Support

Services; Controls and Process Products; and

Geotechnical and Seabed Systems.

Anderson counts the company's core expertise in control system technologies for the entire range of remote inter- vention applications as the bedrock upon which the com- pany's future success is based. "Our challenge is to find new applications for our core expertise, rather than simply build more ROVs,"

Anderson said.

As a technology company, the new product develop- ment is its lifeblood, which explains why the company infuses three percent of revenues- approximately $1.5 to $2 million - into new product development each year. To that end, one of the biggest projects ongoing is the devel- opment of its new generation Work Class ROV. Though physically the new ROV will appear very similar to cur- rent models, it will have vastly enhanced and state-of-the- art control systems and operator interfaces, making it eas- ier to use and maintain.

Much of the development work done at PSS is driven by customer need, and today's customer seems to need most a system that will operate in increasingly deep waters, between 3,000 and 4,000 meters under the sea's surface. "When I started working in the industry, working in 150 meters of water was the limit," Anderson said. "As you go deeper, the challenges increase."

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