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How to boost wind farm profitability with

Digitalization, by means of Automated Performance

Analysis (APA).

Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 | Santiago Lopez – Global Leader AM services UL

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UL: A history of trust

First certification:

vacuum cleaner

1894Founded

UL helps shape

American

Building

Construction

1960Fire

Equipment1909

1913 1963

Certification of

automotive

seat belts

2012

UL acquires

Wind

Testing and

Certification firm DEWI

2016

UL acquires

Renewables

Advisory

Servicesfirm AWS TruepowerFirst

Standard

for Safety

1903

UL begins

Airworthiness

Testing

1930s

Home Appliances

Testing:

Dishwashers,

Washing Machines,

TVs

1921

UL tests

combustibility of

Plastics and

Resins

1941

1953

Safer TVs

1978

UL certifies first

Personal

Computer

Certification of

the first

Solar

Collector

1980

UL opens largest

Photovoltaictesting and

certification facility

2008

Electric

Vehicle research

advances

2009

2019

UL acquires

Microgrids

Software firm

Homer Energy

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Survey on Renewable Generation Plants. What are your problems?

How do UL deliver these services? – RAMP & DIP

Operation Control, Performance Análisis & Advance Inspections

Start to Finish Solution!

RAMP: Advanced Analytics - Waterfall

This platform was designed so businesses managing wind

turbine or factory inspections can automate and

streamline their inspection process.

• Eliminates the administrative work and time delays

associated with paper-based inspections

• Utilizes web-based interface and mobile app, allowing

inspection teams to manage the entire process from

project setup to reporting.

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UL’s Digital Inspection Platform

Manage your entire inspection process by digitalizing the

entire process, keeping necessary steps to a minimum.

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Efficient all-in-one solution

✓ Eliminate paper checklists and time spent on data entry

✓ Quickly review your data after the inspections are

uploaded

✓ Generate automated reports that might otherwise have

taken days or weeks to prepare

✓ Never miss an inspection or forget to capture important

information.

Fully-customizable application allows teams to

efficiently implement and manage the inspection

process in a cloud-based environment.

Upon login:

• Users can access account information based on

their role.

• Managers can set up the appropriate inspection

model along with:

✓ Site specific details

✓ Organize work flows

✓ Define roles and permissions

✓ Track inspections

✓ Deploy inspection checklists through a mobile app

✓ Generate inspection reports and result summaries

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The web application

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Advanced Team Management

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Inspection Team Dashboard

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Manage Checklists

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Turbine Inspection Checklist

UL’s Digital Inspection Platform comes with a mobile app

that acts as the onsite extension of the web application.

➢ Perform site inspections offline using an Android-based mobile

device such as a tablet or phone

➢ The app guides you through checklist fields and hierarchies

➢ Capture photographs

➢ Make notes and recommendations

➢ Add questionnaires specific to site

➢ Securely upload findings to the web-based platform

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The mobile app

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trademarks of Google, LLC.

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Once the inspection is complete the user can securely

upload their findings to the web-based platform where

the data is used to generate reports.

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Fast Reporting

Instantly generate result summaries and

customized reports!

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Report Interface

From Preparation to Results

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Case Study 1

Increase Energy-based

availability out of working

hours

Case Study 1

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Case Study 2

Increase Economic-

based availability

Case Study 2

UL database

What next?

Advanced

Analytics

Release

BASE

3rd Party

Integrations

Release

NEXT‘20 Q1

‘20 Q1 ‘20 Q3

Predictive

Inspections

Release

BEYOND

Customizable Reporting

Accreditation Readiness

Product Agnostic Inspections

Advanced Analytics & API’s

3rd Party Service Integration

3rd Party Provider Access

Predictive

Inspections

Image

Recognition

Inspection

Datahub

How to boost wind farm profitability with Digitalization, by means

of Automated Performance Analysis (APA).