ACCELERATING INNOVATION

THROUGH MODULARISATION

ACCELERATING INNOVATION THROUGH MODULARISATION

The Wind Energy sector has grown rapidly and many of the leading players have scaled through merger and acquisition.

This inherently creates a fragmented R&D capability and potential silos which can slow down your innovation and escalate costs. At a time where funding is less readily available and there is growing pressure to accelerate innovation and streamline costs, embracing modularisation is key.

MODULARISATION

Modularisation enables economies of scale across the product lifecycle by utilising common components for varying turbine designs, so that current equipment can respond more quickly to new innovations. This can be achieved through the repetition effect, to reduce unit costs and increase the quality of what is being made.

Modularisation of product structures offers customers choice, while also allowing them to reuse sub-solutions across different products to improve time-to-market and maintain consistent product quality. By introducing these measures, organisations can achieve cost savings of up to 25 per cent in development, logistics and production, along with a 25 to 30 per cent reduction in time spent on getting a solution market.

HOW CAN WE HELP

• Provide a blueprint for Modularisation

•Ensure you have the right tool chain in place for conceptualisation, design, development & testing

CREATING A DIGITAL PRODUCT LIFECYLE

Along with modularisation, we believe the other key technological approaches to drive speed and quality of innovation are: the use of digital twins, adoption of digital product lifecycle management (PLM) and establishing a single digital thread.

DIGITALISATION

Costs can be driven down even further through digitalisation, enabling you to address the connection of all value chain elements to streamline processes and accelerate speed to market. Digital orchestration is key to enabling this, creating a thread from design to manufacturing, or even design to serviceability, to streamline the process and improve efficiencies and not to undermine the need for enhanced customer experience in current times.

Continually evolving your approach to innovation requires a complex network of continuous improvement with no strand mutually exclusive. Sometimes the connection between design, testing, manufacturing and after-market service is concurrent, sometimes it’s sequential. Regardless of how it happens, what is required is a holistic approach that moves you forward.

For example, to optimise the use of AI and analytics to create a digital twin for testing, you will need an effective PLM solution in place to ensure that concept, design and testing phases are receiving consistent and continuous feedback and analysis. For this to happen, a common single point of data, and a digital thread, is required to inform accuracy across this decision-making process, thereby making initiatives like the Digital Twin a much broader conversation rather than just for a specific lifecycle stage.

HOW CAN WE HELP

• Review & Advise on your Product Development Lifecyle
• Assist you with adopting Digital Product Lifecycle Management
• Help you create the Digital Thread across your complete product innovation chain

Creating a Digital Thread that spans Product Development, Manufacture and After-Sale Services is key in driving greater efficiencies and accelerating both innovation and speed to market.