Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Route Engineering Software News

An operator performing in-office simulations of a cable lay during Makai’s training course. (Photo: Makai)

Makai Offers Advanced Course for Cable Lay Operators

beginning and intermediate users of Makai’s cable software suite, Makai offers Level-I courses that provide training on the fundamentals of cable route engineering and installation with the aid of MakaiLay, MakaiPlan Pro as well as MakaiPlan – the world’s most popular cable route engineering software. Participants of these courses in 2016 include: KCS (Japan), Leidos (USA), General Dynamics (USA), TELIN & Telkom Infra (Indonesia) and KTS (Korea)

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Makai Upgrades Cable Installation Simulation Software

Makai has released version 6.0 of MakaiPlan Pro, software for planning and simulating subsea power and telecom cable installations. MakaiPlan Pro includes the tools of MakaiPlan GIS cable route engineering software. In addition, MakaiPlan Pro allows the user to perform powerful and precise 3-D, dynamic simulations of a submarine cable installation. The operator can quickly simulate an entire cable lay in advance from the comfort of the office at up to 50 times faster than real-time. This is useful for developing Ship Installation plans, performing pre-lay and post-lay analysis, and also for operator

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Makai Subsea Cable Software Plumbs the Depths

Makai Ocean Engineering report multiple sales of their full-featured GIS route engineering software, MakaiPlan, which enables users to create and edit submarine cable routes, define cables and in-line bodies, define and adjust slack, instantly create RPLs and SLDs, estimate system costs and generate a preliminary cable installation plan. Multiple planners and designers work interactively on cable installations with easy access to and exchange of project data. The tool is the industry standard in cable route planning and engineering software, with over 300 licenses sold over the last 14 years.

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