Training on-the-job for maintenance on wind turbines
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, a company listed in the stock exchange with headquarters in Germany, is one of the largest energy utility companies in Germany and Europe.
It provides 5.5 million customers with daily services and products regarding electricity, gas, water, telecommunications, e-mobility, and energy from renewable and sustainable sources. Responding to energy transition, over two million customers and 180,000 renewable generation plants are now connected to EnBW grids.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
To enable energy transition, EnBW expanded its offering relying on a new business division, that of renewables.
This is why, EnBW needed to train employees in the execution of maintenance and inspection activities on complex operations on wind turbines. It was not an easy task considering that knowledge often belongs to the most experienced and senior technicians, only. And so how to deal with the current retirement of skilled employees? How to distribute knowledge at all corporate levels?
OUR SOLUTION
To boost efficiency of training activities and enhance the company’s collective tribal knowledge, EnBW chose the NextGen Field Collaboration, allowing senior technicians to automatically create training workflows that are readily available to technicians who need dedicated training when performing field activities.
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- Video recording via RealWear
Video recording of activities executed in the field by senior technicians, interacting with RealWear devices hands-free through voice commands
- Video recording via RealWear
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- Machine Learning algorithms
Indexing of videos and extraction of data, information, and dialogs leveraging ML algorithms to create step-by-step procedures for organizing training activities, even in offline mode
- Machine Learning algorithms
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- Virtual training repository
Support of technicians through videos, documents, pictures, diagrams, and digital work instructions associated with service orders (SAP integration). Storing of material in a training repository, accessible via mobile device, anywhere and anytime
- Virtual training repository
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- Field collaboration capabilities
Connection of technicians in the field with experts from remote to receive real-time support and on-the-job training
- Field collaboration capabilities
BENEFITS
EnBW is aware of the growing importance of sustainability topics in the world and therefore monitors the environmental, social, and economic impact of its business activities, in an effort to continuously improve them. The objective is to pursue a business model that generates value for stakeholders across the board, combining operating performance with social and environmental sustainability objectives, while also promoting ethics and integrity and guaranteeing to focus on human resources and the wider community in general.
Through the NextGen Field Collaboration, EnBW can put into practice sustainable consumption processes, while providing affordable and clean energy and investing in people, giving them the perfect setting to flourish through high-quality education and cutting-edge technologies. Moreover, the remote collaboration allows to reduce travel costs, thus considerably decreasing CO2 emissions.
OverIT NextGen Field Collaboration has also contributed to reaching Sustainable Development Goals.
