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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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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).