Fleet monitoring for an offshore wind operator
Fleet-wide early warning of turbine failures, so vessels and maintenance staff are scheduled to the fault rather than the weather window: a 15% average improvement in uptime.
Challenge
Planned service, maintenance and minor repairs offshore need expensive specialist vessels and access systems. A fleet-wide view of potential failures across turbines, combined with weather patterns, makes scheduling difficult, and blade stress and corrosion are hard to predict.
Solution
Arundo's monitoring made problems easy to locate at farm, turbine or sub-component level, with early warning of failures such as gearbox faults to improve the planning of vessels and staff, and drone image data to predict blade failure risk.
Impact
15% average improvement in uptime. More efficient scheduling of vessels and maintenance staff, and better prediction of failures across the fleet, reduce risk and cost.