When You Bought the Turbine, Did You Buy All the Ideas in It?
The current shift of wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) into providing more services has been the result of a need to replenish the revenue drop-off from recent lagging turbine sales, as well as a desire to regulate the services being performed on their turbine fleets.
By Philip Totaro, CEO of IntelStor, USA
As companies look for ways to monetise services, we see a technological push into areas such as SCADA and/or condition monitoring data analysis for damage accumulation, prediction of remaining useful life, predictive maintenance scheduling, spare parts scheduling, and energy output optimisation taking component life consumption into consideration.
