Gamesa has closed the purchase of a 50% shareholding in technology company NEM Solutions from CAF and Tecnalia, having received approval for the transaction from the anti-trust authorities.
Gamesa acquired a 35% stake from the rail company CAF – which still holds 50% of NEM – and the remaining 15% from the Basque technology company Tecnalia.
The transaction is part of Gamesa’s aim to develop services that “add value for the customer in the predictive maintenance arena” to enhance turbine performance and streamline maintenance processes and costs.
NEM Solutions develops technological applications for the management of predictive maintenance in the wind and rail sectors, Gamesa said.
Its Aura technology platform analyses data points generated by the equipment under maintenance in order to create a model defining normal operating conditions for each piece of equipment.
Based on this benchmark, the platform predicts the future performance of each machine.
Gamesa will utilise the system to analyse 16bn data inputs generated and sent daily by its 16,000 turbines under its maintenance to the company’s remote control centre in Sarriguren in Spain.
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