Turbines grow larger, gearbox cost increase. It will be standard to monitor the mechanical torque of geared drivetrains using fiber-optic sensors.
Planetary gearbox failures causing downtime? Is maintenance impacting productivity and profitability? No information on how much a gearbox and driveline is enduring in operation?
Introducing GearUp, our retrofittable optical monitoring platform designed to predict planetary wind gearbox issues before they occur. With real-time operation data combined with predictive analytics, operators can minimize downtime, optimize maintenance, and maximize turbine output throughout the complete life-cycle, ensuring reliable, efficient wind energy generation.
Gearboxes accounting for 10-15% of turbine maintenance costs, a single failure can cost easily up to €450K.
Turbine drivelines are operated in different environments, resulting in different failure modes and operating life.
Planetary stage bearing failures are hard to monitor, since the system is rotating very slow.
Benefits of implementing GearUp
- Improved reliability: Measuring over torque, break events and load sharing of planetary gearboxes significantly reduces downtime and ensures consistent turbine operation.
- Early fault detection: Torque combined with vibration monitoring precisely identifies complete gearbox anomalies, enabling maintenance before critical failures occur.
- Maximize park output: Insights into exact field usage gives remaining useful life. This gives enables control input to optimize output versus wear during the complete life and utilizes the park energy output.
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Frequently asked questions. Got more?
Vibration monitoring detect failures before they occur, so maintenance can be planned and downtime can be prevented. By adding operation parameters to vibration monitoring, more precise estimations can be made and analysis is easier.
This can done directly from our edge device to your scada, PLC or test system or via an API from our cloud database.
All rotating equipment from motors, pumps and wind and marine drivelines to large application as tunnelboring, mining or paper production.
Got any questions? Get in touch with Eric.
Eric van Genuchten
Operation Officer
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