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ShaftDesigner is a product of Machine Support B.V. in the Netherlands.

Machine Support is a provider of chocking and mounting materials, as well as a service provider for alignment and mounting solutions for machines. This year Machine Support B.V. celebrates twenty five years experience in providing complete solutions for the mounting and alignment of machines. At this time Machine Support's fifty people staff offer their expertise in the marine field to ship owners, operators, shipbuilders, ship repair organizations and OEM's throughout the world.

ShaftDesigner was developed by Dr. Yuriy Batrak of Intellectual Maritime Technologies (IMT) in the Ukraine for Machine Support B.V in the Netherlands as part of their service division. It was created as a bridge between IMT's theoretical expertise and Machine Support's practical experience in the field of shaft alignment and mounting. Thanks to the software's capabilities to perform reversed calculations, the theory and practical findings could be cross-validated, guaranteeing accurate results. In the development of ShaftDesigner there was also a close cooperation with classification societies and leading OEMs of various components of the propulsion train, in order to meet their needs. In order to guarantee optimal performance for retail customers, Machine Support's service division has actively been testing the ShaftDesigner software since 2006 and had it further improved continuously before releasing it to the market.