Wind Turbine Manufacturing Planning

Though many wind turbine manufacturers have a healthy order backlog, there is significant pressure to optimize manufacturing costs. This means that these companies are looking for solutions to increase their production quickly and lower costs, while maintaining a high level of production quality and reliability. Companies are increasingly relying on automation techniques such as robotics to achieve these goals.

Sustainable Wind Turbines 3DEXPERIENCE solution supports a Design-for-Manufacturing approach so that both design and manufacturing processes can be optimized concurrently and in ways that would best utilize available resources. It offers manufacturing and tooling engineering capabilities unmatched in the industry. From the early stages of product development, digital manufacturing that involves planning, scheduling, sequencing, robotics and NC programming can be defined, preventing problems from arising later when products are ready to be built.

Sustainable Wind Turbines provides manufacturing organizations throughout the supply chain with comprehensive 3D process and resource planning tools for creating and optimizing build-to-order and lean production. By verifying and validating automated production systems in a virtual environment, companies can evaluate multiple process plans and production systems even before building a single prototype. This approach also promotes Design-Anywhere/Build-Anywhere (DABA) business agility. The manufacturing sequences can be rearranged independently from the design structure, providing full flexibility for individual sites to utilize custom production methods. Upon completion of the manufacturing planning, detailed work instructions are created for workers in the form of easy-to-follow instructions that include 3D assembly sequences to help minimize errors.