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News Release from: Prueftechnik Condition Monitoring
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 August 2003
Insurance clause leads to large order
Pruftechnik Condition Monitoring has won a contract for 300 installation-ready systems for online condition monitoring of wind turbines.
Together with Flender Service, Pruftechnik Condition Monitoring has signed a basic contract for the delivery of 300 installation-ready systems for the online condition monitoring of the complete drive-train of wind turbines The equipment includes vibration pickups specially developed for low speed machines (0.1Hz-10kHz) for these plants
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The impetus for the new business comes from insurance company revision clauses that stipulate the complete drive-train of a wind turbine must undergo a general overhaul after every 40,000 operating hours or 5 years.
The only way that turbine operators can increase this maintenance interval - and thereby reduce operating costs - is by incorporating an approved condition monitoring system.
The revision clauses affect a total of around 14,000 wind power plants in Germany alone.
"We are proud, in partnership with Flender Service, to have been awarded the largest basic contract to date for condition monitoring systems in the wind power industry.
It confirms that Pruftechnik Condition Monitoring can successfully prove itself time and again in challenging projects", says Roland Schuhle, Technical Manager of Pruftechnik Condition Monitoring.
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