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Competitive advantage
- Extensive experience in condition-monitoring and condition-based maintenance for critical equipment in wind, solar-thermal, hydroelectric and fossil-fuel plants
- Able to integrate wear and vibration analysis to monitor machine condition and predict the remaining life of critical assets
- Cutting-edge diagnostic and prognostic tools to inform maintenance decision makers
- World-renowned research group with expertise in vibration and wear debris analyses
Impact
- Targeted maintenance creates massive cost savings, increases asset availability, and enhances personnel safety with early detection and prediction of failures in rotating machine systems
Successful applications
- Hydraulic instability detection for hydro-turbines
- Detection and prediction of gear faults for wind turbine planetary and spur gears, helicopter gearboxes, and planetary gears and bearings; aero-engine bearing diagnostics
- Maintenance optimisation for concentrated solar power plants
- Monitoring of pump wear
Capabilities and facilities
- Capabilities in terms of fault detection, diagnostics and prognostics are supported by:
- Test rigs with diagnostic and prognostic capabilities –