Vestas customers will now get online access to blade inspection analysis and data from any of the company’s turbines in any market, thanks to the expansion of Vestas’ partnership with Folsom, Calif.-based InspecTools, an energy asset inspection company.
With the ability to efficiently analyze inspections, Vestas says it is strengthening predictive wind turbine maintenance. The partnership includes global access to asset data management system WindAMS, which will enable customers to reduce performance loss or unforeseen costs.
Together with customer access to an online portal to view blade conditions across entire fleets, WindAMS can further improve predictive maintenance and help mitigate issues such as severe leading-edge erosion, which can reduce annual energy production, explains Vestas.
“By extending our partnership with InspecTools, Vestas will provide customers with even better and faster blade condition insights, which enable customers globally to better manage their fleets by investing more effectively in maintenance to lower costs and increase production and revenues,” says Christian Venderby, group senior vice president and head of service at Vestas.
“We welcome this opportunity to take our existing relationship with Vestas to the next level with the signing of this global partnership. Deploying WindAMS will enable Vestas to standardise the collection, review, analysis and reporting of turbine blade condition data collected anywhere, by any method,” adds InspecTools’ CEO, Paul Bingaman.
Since 2016, Vestas and InspecTools have partnered in North America on drone inspections to reduce both inspection costs and safety risks. The partnership also includes an agreement to further develop WindAMS artificial intelligence to automate inspection data analysis.
