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The end of warranty period typically takes place at the end of the initial service and warranty agreement for a new wind farm.
It is a crucial stage when it pays for owner/operators to be aware of everything that’s happening with their components, to be able to prioritise and extend the future design life of their turbines.
It’s therefore important to ensure that inspections and maintenance have been performed properly.
Large owners may have several wind farms to inspect each year – a big data challenge. For example, 250 turbines, with 300 inspection points each, makes 75,000 data points.
Many of these will have a photo attached to it: a grease leak, a missing blade stud, or melted cooling fan. Each point will have a severity rating and often a comment and recommendation.
Without a standard tracking tool, this data can easily be lost and misplaced with no simple way to track each component. Technicians can inconsistently determine failure modes and the severities of each failure mode.
Additionally, the language used to describe each failure mode can be inconsistent which can have legal connotations for example, broken v requires maintenance.
And without a software platform, data can be extremely difficult to organize and prioritize after inspections are completed. The big data challenge can be extremely time consuming to organize into Excel or similar tool.
Using its mobile and web wind turbine inspection app fieldPRO, ONYX can track and organize deliverables to the customer. fieldPRO enables field services to quickly collect information, and observations on turbines to inform future O&M decisions.
Connecting the dots, it allows simple and bespoke categorization of inspections per customer setup, tracking images, comments, and past data to give a clear status of components.
With fieldPRO, all observations can be easily filtered, ranked, and exported to be actioned by Operations personnel. Owners/operators can create checklist items, allowing multiple technicians to work on multiple components on the same turbine at the same time.
From basic pen and paper to digital in minutes. fieldPRO can save significant time recording inspection data. Consolidating data in one standard tool means reports can be generated by our mobiles, instantly.
Reduce the time taken to complete the inspections by 3 hours per turbine if working by hand previously.
fieldPRO delivers priority fixes, which can then be sent to the OEM. It also collates details on previous failures pre and post-maintenance, making claims back to the OEM simple & straightforward.
Better collaboration and communication across engineering teams, with an instant view and status of components for more efficient O&M.
1) Get more out of your drivetrain CMS
Leverage existing drivetrain CMS for ongoing foundation monitoring.
2) Future-proof wind assets
Ongoing health monitoring and consultancy, illustrating trends and de-risking the possibility of future foundation issues.
3) Pinpoint your intensive testing on known issues
By elevating your understanding to the entire fleet it enables owner/ operators to focus value resource on foundations of concern.
No more paperwork chaos. See how fieldPRO helps teams save time, reduce errors, and claim warranty costs with confidence.