 Focused and efficient OEM-standards for wind park performance optimization Depending on the client’s requirements, "enterprise management" functions can be carried out by WindRisk at two levels:
- Facilities Management, where WindRisk supervises, on the owner’s behalf and from the owner’s perspective, the owner’s operations and maintenance contractor’s activities, for the fully coordinated, risk management- focused oversight of the operation of wind park assets; and
- Operations & Maintenance, where WindRisk actually replaces the existing operations and maintenance contractor and carries out the day to day wind park operations and maintenance activities itself with its own crews.
In both cases, the WindRisk Enterprise Management Platform uses the state-of-the-art WindRisk condition monitoring system outputs and predictive/preventive maintenance system (including equipment failure history records) as the basis for the application of an industry-leading, proactive, coordinated wind park operations management strategy. WindRisk’s "enterprise management" approach considers all aspects of wind park operations on an integrated basis, from the purely technical aspects of machinery condition and performance history, using root cause analysis techniques and incorporating specialist software for spare parts management, maintenance scheduling and production of work orders, to the non-technical aspects such as the actual operating style and approach, including prescribing detailed operating procedures to better manage and control operational risks.
At present, the typical wind industry facilities management or operations and maintenance contractor usually delivers its services within the context of a standard cost-plus contract that has few built-in incentives to promote WTG availability and optimal economic asset performance. In fact, unscheduled maintenance invoicing may actually result in increased revenues for the typical operations and maintenance contractor, to the detriment of the wind park owner, as a result of their respective interests not being aligned.
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Using WindRisk’s integrated, risk-management based approach, costly unscheduled maintenance can be minimized and catastrophic equipment failure can be avoided through early fault detection, thereby maximizing wind park performance, availability and wind turbine lifecycles, while at the same time minimizing equipment downtime and insurance claims, all having the effect of enhancing wind park profitability. Importantly, WindRisk’s approach, through ensuring a rapid and effective response to equipment and performance problems, is equally as important to a wind park owner, financier or buyer of carbon credits during the warranty period as during the post-warranty period.
In addition to its wind industry experience and insight gained from years of hands-on experience, WindRisk also has a key skills set differentiator that stands apart from traditional wind industry operations and maintenance providers, being the WindRisk management team’s considerable experience in the technically sophisticated oil and gas sector, and the coal-fired, hydro and nuclear power industries.
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