GE Power Conversion and BLP Industry AI (BLP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together to provide solutions to help wind farm operators maximise asset availability and reliability.
The solutions will include next generation AI technology and asset performance management.
The partnership will bring together BLP’s EDGE software, and its proprietary Orion platform – the operating system for AI and IoT (Internet of Things), with GE Power Conversion’s Asset Performance Management (APM) solution, under this MoU.
Orion, along with its suite of industrial AI software-as-a-service products. make industrial data valuable by providing relevant insights to operations and engineering teams, to drive efficiency and productivity.
GE Power Conversion’s asset performance management is an equipment maintenance solution based on unique physics-based analytical techniques, engineered to provide relevant data and insights to facilitate improved performance of industrial electrical equipment and associated systems.
It is a global leader with unique experience and capabilities in the design and manufacture of advanced motor, drive and control technologies serving specialized sectors such as energy, marine, industry and all related services.
GE Power Conversion’s Engineering Design Centre (EDC), in Chennai, India, will leverage, through software and analytics, the asset performance management solutions for sector specific applications in marine, metals and renewable energy globally.
A subsidiary of Bharat Light & Power Pvt, BLP is a global industrial AI and enterprise IoT company that accelerates digital transformation across industries.
It is one of the leaders in Enterprise AI and Industrial IoT technologies, has a deep experience in big data analytics and experience in providing advanced electrical analytics offerings and technical support globally.
Founder and chief executive of Bharat Light & Power Pvt Tejpreet S Chopra said: “GE Power Conversion’s APM technology – which can unify high frequency data – and GE’s strength in power conversion technology, alongside Industry.AI’s experience in providing advanced analytics to the renewables sector, will help wind farm owners increase generation, reduce costs and improve returns.”
GE Power Conversion chief technology officer André Borouchaki added: “We are excited to work together with BLP Industry.AI.
“Bringing together GE Power Conversion’s advanced digital industrial technologies and APM solution combined with Industry.AI’s Orion platform will help wind farm operators to gain relevant data and insights to maximise their asset availability and reliability, ultimately helping the asset owners to reduce their costs and improve returns.”