Services
Wind Manufacturing Services
Applus+ offers a comprehensive portfolio of wind manufacturing services and skills aimed at overseeing the production process of key wind farm components at the manufacturing facility. Applus+ services are aimed at onshore and offshore wind projects and they include a global team of inspectors who can oversee processes in almost any location of the world, as well as the most advanced technology for Non-Destructive Testing (NDTs).
As part of the Applus+ Renewable Energy Services unit, Applus+ experts work together with our Enertis Applus+ team to protect our clients’ long-term profitability by thoroughly reviewing all the steps of the procurement, manufacturing, quality assurance phases, as well as the transportation and delivery processes.
Our team takes the necessary steps to mitigate performance- predictability risk, ensure quality, and facilitate long-term client return on investment, while maintaining independence from manufacturers.
Our Wind Manufacturing services include, but are not limited to:
Experience in wind manufacturing inspection
AMIS Quality Management Software to ensure excellence
Expert ultra-advanced NDT operators
Skilled vendor inspectors in key industrial hubs worldwide
- Preparation/review/validation of:
- All types of quality documentation, inspection procedures, & Inspection Test Plan (ITP)
- NDT procedures (ISO 9712 40N-III certifications in all inspection techniques)
- Factory Audits
- Supplier Evaluations
- Activation of Orders for all wind plant components
- Factory inspection: towers, nacelles, International Welding Engineers (IWE), International Welding Inspectors (IWI), NDT, blades, gear box, transformer
- Coatings Inspection, with NACE or FROSIO inspectors: towers, nacelles, blades, gear box, transformer
- Supervision of FAT tests: towers, nacelles, blades, gear box, transformers
- Loading & unloading inspection, pre-shipment inspection, warehouse management, (logistics), & back-office support
- Preparation, review or validation of the scan plan, calibration block design – included as part of the contract with the manufacturers of towers, piles & monopiles
- Digital Dimensional Control: 3D Scanning, (LiDar technology) / Leica Total Station Testing team
- Conventional and advanced NDT Phase Array Time of Flight Diffraction (PA, ToFD), more than 600 NDT ISO 9712 certificates in all techniques, also ultra-advanced IWEX technology