Optimising flow of maintenance information to boost turbine efficiency: Presentation held at European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, EWEC 2011, Brussels, Belgium, 14 - 17 March 2011

Reliability based maintenance enables significant reduction of maintenance cost in combination with improved availability. For the accomplishment of this strategy appropriate failure statistics are required. The generation of a common database provided by a large group of operators will, due to its size, enable statistically reliable predictions concerning the success of operational concepts. Furthermore, based on anonymous benchmarking and weak-point analyses, operators have the opportunity to test and, if necessary, optimise maintenance procedures and the performance of their wind farms. However, the common way documenting faults and maintenance activities is currently not suitable for standardised and automated evaluations