Siemens remote diagnostic center improves ROI on wind farms

Siemens has opened the company’s remote diagnostics center with facilities to wind turbine remote diagnostic and monitoring capabilities.

Wind investments are prone to different types of disasters- manmade and natural. With remote monitoring, Siemens help site owners increase their ROI by lowering the costs associated with wind energy.

Remote diagnostics is an important part of Siemens’ portfolio of value-added services. According to Siemens, experts can solve and fix more than 85 percent of all alarms remotely without a service team doing trouble-shooting onsite.

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Located in its global headquarters for wind service, Brande, Denmark, the diagnostic center hosts diagnostic operations and monitoring services for more than 7,500 installed Siemens wind turbines worldwide to proactively keep the units operating at their optimum levels of performance.

The diagnostic center will feature more than 130 experts closely monitor the entire Siemens global fleet on a 24/7/365 basis and can detect and often remotely solve potential issues before they occur.

“This new state-of-the-art remote diagnostics center further reinforces our commitment to providing our customers with the very best in remote monitoring and diagnostics,” said Tim Holt, CEO of Siemens Service Renewables.

“We’ve been monitoring longer than anyone else in the industry and are leveraging the data into value-added decision-making tools that help our customers operate at maximum efficiency,” Holt added.

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Siemens currently monitor over 7,500 turbines worldwide and collects over 200 gigabytes of new data every day. Twenty four million turbine parameters are monitored on the fleet and investigated constantly to provide dynamic optimization of turbine operations with more than 300 million diagnostic calculation results currently being performed every week.

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Reduced downtime and fewer maintenance result in a higher energy output. Technologies like vibration diagnostics allows Siemens to detect even the smallest indicator that something may not be operating normally and follow up by recommending proactive solutions before the issue becomes serious.

Siemens experts can see how certain locations, operating conditions and length of service are impacting the turbines and make recommendations based on this and other data. The results contribute to enhanced turbine performance over the long term, thereby lowering the cost of energy.

The new building also includes a dedicated customer area where customers can meet with Siemens experts, observe the center’s operations firsthand, and work together for a proactive approach to managing service and maintenance.
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