“Use the drone,” Anja said.
Her on-premise SAP ERP system was grinding to a halt. The last predictive maintenance report took 45 minutes to run. The digital twin of the turbine hadn't synced because the local server farm in Hamburg was running at 98% capacity. Meanwhile, the physical turbine was screaming in the North Sea.
Anja Vogel, the Lead Maintenance Planner for North German Wind Power (NGWP), stared at the red alert on her screen. The bearing temperature on Turbine 7 at the offshore Bremen Breeze farm was spiking. If it failed, the rotor would seize, costing €50,000 an hour in lost energy and another €200,000 in emergency repairs.
Then came the magic of .
But they had a problem. The Cuxhaven depot was 80 km away. The service van could make it in an hour. The turbine would fail in 22 minutes.
“Use the drone,” Anja said.
Her on-premise SAP ERP system was grinding to a halt. The last predictive maintenance report took 45 minutes to run. The digital twin of the turbine hadn't synced because the local server farm in Hamburg was running at 98% capacity. Meanwhile, the physical turbine was screaming in the North Sea.
Anja Vogel, the Lead Maintenance Planner for North German Wind Power (NGWP), stared at the red alert on her screen. The bearing temperature on Turbine 7 at the offshore Bremen Breeze farm was spiking. If it failed, the rotor would seize, costing €50,000 an hour in lost energy and another €200,000 in emergency repairs.
Then came the magic of .
But they had a problem. The Cuxhaven depot was 80 km away. The service van could make it in an hour. The turbine would fail in 22 minutes.