BriicI & Kjicr Vibra leliver lead-time aintenance! Remote Condition Monitoring Program for Wind Turbines

Value A pro-active wind turbine condition monitoring strategy offers clear ad-vantages to your operation & maintenance program. It allows you to make service interventions in order to avert catastrophic failure, perform inspecͭtions that are prioritized and properly focused, and optimize maintenance scheduling and costs. When properly implemented, condition monitoring systems and services can significant-ly increase uptime, improve reliability and even extend the lifetime of the wind turbines. Can any condition monitoring system be used for wind turbines? No! The monitoring requirements for a...

Concept Successful condition monitoring is not only a matter of having reliable hardware and software; it is equally important to have an efficient organisation with the capability and capac-ity to transform the large amount of data into actionable information. The primary elements in our remote monitoring and diagnosis program (which is Germanischer Lloyd ap-proved) includes: ͕ Local data acquisition units Alarm management and review of all alarms by analysts in the Conխdition Monitoring Centre Reporting actionable information to customer service groups Fault dթtection and diagnosis Our monitoring...

Concept ...continued Program Effective alarm management and lead-time prediction The alarm management system employs a severity assessment concept for more accurately planning service. The severity of every detected fault is related to the vibration amplitude, rate of progression, type of fault and the type of machine component. A number of severity classes have been defined, each related to an estimated lead-time. This information is passed on to the cus-tomer together with a diagnostic evaluation of the alarm. The Br͹el & Kjr Vibro condition monitoring solution is an all inclusive program of...

Reporting All monitoring, diagnoses, reporting and action calls are done by ISO 18436-2 cat. II and III approved analysts. Each alarm report includes detailed information on the observaͭtions, interpretation and the recom-mended action. alarms displayed have been evalu-ated by analysts. The WTG diagnosis program allows customers to see and analyze the data. It is based on the same software used in the Condition Monitoring Centre. Here you can download data and perform your own diagnoses. Project Management The project implementation is well structured and defined, without hid-den engineering...

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