BMT Reliability Consultants

BMT Reliability Consultants Ltd is providing Reliability and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) support to design teams engaged in the development of next generation off-shore wind turbines. This support enables OEMs to meet the challenges associated with new designs offering double the generating capacity of existing products, and integrates Reliabili... ty into the core of the development process, ensuring an optimum balance between Technical Availability and O&M Costs. The work by the OEMs represents a quantum leap in rotor size and energy capture. The proposed rotor diameters have swept areas much larger than any existing in service solutions. Based on its understanding of the challenges of emerging standards such as the IEC 61400-26 Availability guideline, BMT Reliability Consultants has tailored its Reliability and Supportability best practices from the Aerospace sector into a cost effective suite of techniques for the renewables industry. Richard Wilby, Head of Reliability at BMT comments: "A disciplined Design for Availability approach mitigates the risk of lost production penalties, and enables significant reductions in repair and specialist vessel hire costs downstream. It is therefore critical for organisations developing the next generation of high-capacity wind turbines to drive reliability and support attributes into their designs from the outset."Read More