Achieving Optimal Wind Farm Performance with Predictive Maintenance and Advanced Condition Monitoring

The wind energy sector faces mounting challenges: aging assets, limited skilled personnel, rising costs, and supply chain pressures. To maintain profitability and ensure efficient operations, wind asset owners need to embrace proactive strategies. ONYX Insight, a leader in predictive maintenance, is empowering operators with cutting-edge tools that offer comprehensive insights and control over wind farm operations.

Rethinking Maintenance: Beyond Full-Wrap Service Agreements

Many operators rely on full-wrap maintenance contracts, transferring the risk to service providers. However, these contracts can lead to misaligned priorities and potentially compromise long-term asset health. Instead, ONYX recommends a data-driven approach using condition monitoring systems (CMS) and predictive maintenance (PM) to identify potential failures well in advance. With 12 to 24 months of visibility into asset health, operators can plan maintenance more effectively, reducing unplanned outages and operational costs.

Implementing Flexible, Customized CMS Solutions

ONYX’s expertise lies in creating tailored solutions to fit each operator’s unique needs, whether monitoring drivetrain components, pitch bearings, or blades. ONYX’s fleetMONITOR platform is hardware-agnostic, making it compatible with multiple turbine models. By consolidating performance metrics across an entire portfolio, fleetMONITOR enables operators to track key performance indicators (KPIs) in one system, ensuring consistency and simplifying operations.

A Holistic Predictive Maintenance Strategy

To fully realize the benefits of CMS, ONYX promotes integrating predictive analytics with real-time decision-making. This approach allows operators to respond quickly to defects, optimize maintenance schedules, and prevent costly failures. For many clients, moving from full-service contracts to a hybrid model—where major component maintenance is managed in-house—has proven to lower operational expenses and enhance uptime.

Conclusion

In a rapidly evolving industry, staying competitive requires a flexible, data-informed maintenance strategy. ONYX Insight’s predictive maintenance solutions offer wind operators a comprehensive, scalable approach to maximizing asset performance, reducing costs, and achieving long-term success.