M A C H I N E R Y SCHAEFFLER ADVANCES TECHNOLOGY, RELIABILITY FOR WIND TURBINES Schaeffler is using over 30 years experience producing bearings for wind turbines to further optimise the cost-effectiveness and reliability of its wind power products, technologies and maintenance services for the Australasian market. Wind power is showing continued growth in Australia according to the Clean Energy Council’s latest report. In 2014, wind accounted for over 30% of all renewable energy and 4.2% of Australia’s total energy generation. “Rolling bearings play a key role in wind turbines, and downtime or maintenance work can be costly, especially on off-shore systems,” says Mr Ben Kang, power transmission and wind energy sector manager, Schaeffler Australia. “Demand for greater reliability in the wind power sector has greatly increased in recent years – for both on-shore and off-shore installations.” To meet the increasing demands for reliability in wind power systems and components, Schaeffler created the Wind Power Standard (WPOS). In order to achieve the high standards, Schaeffler relies on coordinated and transparent processes, defined change management, strict quality monitoring, and extensive documentation across the entire process chain in close cooperation with customers and suppliers. “WPOS is designed to make sure we’re always designing bearings with optimum quality and reliability in mind,” says Mr Kang. “Schaeffler develops the best solution for every bearing position by working together with its customers from start to finish.” To further extend the benefits of WPOS, Schaeffler takes further quality and reliability assurance measures for all products and technologies it engineers for the wind power sector. These include: Optimum Design with state-of-the-art calculation and simulation programs: Along with many years of experience and extensive system expertise, the specialists at Schaeffler ensure the optimum design of wind power bearings with especially state-ofthe art calculation and simulation programs. Schaeffler takes the entire system into account, from individual rolling bearings and their components to the adjacent structures and the complete drive train, which is depicted and optimised with multi-body simulation programs developed in-house. Realistic tests on Schaeffler Astraios: The calculations are enhanced and validated on powerful 40 June 2016
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