Offshore Success Relies on Strategic Maintenance

摘要

WHEN IT COMES TO WIND TURBINE maintenance, owners' goals can generally be summarized as follows: predict faults early to reduce unplanned downtime, increase overall profitability, and extend the lifecycle of the turbine. Fault prediction, the most essential element of the maintenance planning process, is facilitated by smart, cloud-based Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS). CMS enables wind park owners to implement a knowledge-based maintenance strategy; a careful combination of reactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance. Reactive maintenance is simply waiting for a part to break down before replacing it. Preventive maintenance estimates interval times between repairs based on historical data. Predictive maintenance uses real-time data to predict faults before they occur.