TÜV SÜD plans to unveil a smart solution for inspecting onshore and offshore wind turbines at the WindEnergy 2016 trade fair in Hamburg next week
The German certification company said the new solution records results on site using mobile devices and saves them onto a database in line with the RDS-PP industry standard.
The company said the system assigns codes to components that serve as unique descriptors of the individual components of a system, its location and function, and enables them to be categorised.
TÜV SÜD Industrie Service head of wind energy Martin Webhofer said: “The system eliminates any confusion arising from the use of different terminology for the same components by inspection or service staff or manufacturers’ documentation.
“Such confusion represents a significant obstacle in systematic evaluation of turbine condition, and thus makes optimised maintenance far harder to achieve.”
When conducting inspections, TÜV SÜD said its staff record data using a special app on mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets.
The findings are classified and structured, then automatically transmitted to a tamper-proof archive system and database.
The company said that in order to achieve this it has expanded its netDocX electronic inspection log for wind turbines.
It added that the inspection report is automatically generated from the information entered, and is saved immediately after data input in the netDocX electronic log, which turbine operators can access directly from the Internet or the app.
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