Gamesa has taken a 50% interest in wind energy and rail maintenance specialist NEM Solutions.
The deal is part of Gamesa’s goal for developing services that add value for the customer in the predictive maintenance arena – announced in its 2015-2017 Business Plan.
Gamesa is purchasing Tecnalia’s entire 15% interest and 35% of CAF’s shareholding – CAF is reducing its stake to 50%.
The transaction is subject to anti-trust approval and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016.
NEM Solutions’s technology is applied in maintenance activities to leverage data mining to optimise equipment performance by anticipating future incidents.
The company’s technology platform, Aura, analyses the millions of data points generated by the equipment under maintenance with a view to creating a model that defines normal operating conditions for each piece of equipment.
Based on this benchmark, NEM Solutions then predicts the future performance of each machine, diagnosing, precisely and proactively, using artificial intelligence, potential equipment incidents.
For Gamesa, the systems developed by NEM will use the 15.5bn data inputs generated and sent daily by the more than 14,500 turbines under its maintenance to the company’s remote control centre in Sarriguren in Spain.
Gamesa corporate development managing director David Mesonero said: “The investment in NEM alongside a partner of the calibre of CAF will accelerate Gamesa’s access to advanced data management know-how in the predictive maintenance field, a powerful technology tool which is not as developed in the wind sector as in the rail industry.”
Image: Gamesa’s control centre in Sarriguren in Spain (Gamesa)
