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is ongoing, but it also allows site engineers to effectively share knowledge of common defects between them, thus improving speed and quality. Notes and photos taken in the nacelle are automatically mapped to the appropriate wind turbine component and stored in the Field Pro database. This allows inspection and service reports to be generated in various formats, whether for an individual turbine, a whole wind farm or even by certain component across the wind farm.


Mobile tools allow for quality controls and efficiency gains not afforded by pen and paper


checklists. A smartphone or tablet running Field Pro can be pre-loaded with a detailed checklist for the particular inspection (e.g. end of warranty, gearbox, routine monthly inspection, etc.) to guide the technician through the exact requirements of an inspection. The device’s camera can be used to directly populate each checklist component with inspection photos and then supplement it by entering information up-tower such as severity ratings, failure modes and recommendations. Then, back in the office, additional images from external sources such as borescopes can be imported easily into the existing report via the web portal. Finally, pre-formatted reports are created and exported with minimal time and effort.


IMPROVING END OF WARRANTY CLAIMS


The end of warranty is a critical time. Collecting and organising data to make effective warranty claims is not easy and hinges on systematically presenting information in a clear and consistent way. In the past, the Romax InSight team performed end of warranty campaigns using pen and paper checklists, but Field Pro has now improved efficiency greatly. For example, the team recently worked on a large end of warranty project for 50 Vestas V90 3 MW wind turbines in the Philippines. The wind farm owner, EBWPC, used Field Pro as part of their inspection workflow and found that the reporting process that would normally take them three-four weeks took them only 72 hours. Another service provider, EDF Renewable Services, used Field


Pro to deliver the end of warranty inspections for a wind farm in the USA with over 100 turbines. EDF found that Field Pro saved them approximately six person-hours per turbine in report writing, saving them over $40,000 – not including the indirect benefits of more consistent reporting for warranty claims.


SUMMARY


Overall, moving to a digital approach for recording service and inspection findings helps drive up the quality and consistency of reports and has been proven to deliver measurable time and cost savings. Field Pro is now available as a free subscription, so we hope to see many more operators and service providers adopting this new technology and seeing the benefits for themselves.


Neil MacDougall Mechanical Engineer Romax InSight


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