Gearbox Express says it is staffed with gearbox guys that have grown up in the industry. Everything they know, they learned by getting their hands dirty. Here’s a chance to learn from them. Gearbox Training is a two-day, hands-on training course taught by top gearbox repair technicians, designers and consulting engineers. The $2,500 course, a…
Infigen Energy chooses Romax remote monitoring for its Texas wind farms
Infigen Energy, owner and operator of 24 wind farms across the USA and Australia has chosen Romax as its independent provider to support the company in reducing downtime costs on two of its wind farms currently being monitored in the US. The company says it benefits from the Romax InSight Health Management Solution, a combination…
Romax says mitigating risk is key to wind farm development
In the wind-turbine industry, understanding failure modes and identifying the root cause is key to being able to assess wind turbine drivetrain damage. With this knowledge comes the ability to reactively solve problems while implementing a strategic view of preventative or predictive maintenance. It’s now well documented that unpredicted wind turbine downtime can cause significant…
Mitigating risk is key for wind farm development says Romax
In the wind turbine industry, understanding failure modes and identifying the root cause is key to being able to assess wind turbine drivetrain damage. With this knowledge comes the ability to reactively solve problems whilst implementing a strategic view of preventative or predictive maintenance. It’s now well documented that unpredicted wind turbine downtime can cause…
Repair strategies for wind turbine gearboxes
Bruce Neumiller • Founder • Gearbox Express • www.gearboxexpress.com There is no single reason why gearboxes fail prematurely, and that is often the most confounding aspect of such failures. An experienced and independent, remanufacturing supplier can look at the various failures by model and provide upgrades to mitigate these failures. As a gearbox-repair supplier, we…
Establishing failure modes for bearings in wind turbines
Several techniques are available for finding a bearing’s failure mechanism in a wind-turbine gearbox. Once established, a root-cause analysis can determine the origins of the failure mechanism. Michael Hornemann, Reliability Engineer Dr. Ashley Crowther, VP of Engineering, U.S. Technical Center, Romax Technology Inc, www.romaxtechnology.com Drive-train failures in wind turbines are often expensive to remediate due…
Romax secures another patent for wind industry development
Romax Technology’s desire to ‘push the boundaries’ leads to the development of a twin offset gear planet carrier for the wind industry. “The Romax philosophy,” says Romax Technology Founder Dr Poon, “is to look at existing designs and see how we can improve them. As a company, we are constantly looking at conventional practice and…
Managing drivetrain health by managing data
Larry Jacobs/ Marketing and Sales Manager/North America/ Romax Technology/www.romaxtech.com The U.S. wind industry is entering a transitional period in which more focus is placed on O&M strategies than expansion. One can easily see results in the attendance increase at various O&M conferences. Strategies that can make an impact in both operations (increased production) and maintenance…
GL recognizes Romax Technology for excellence in engineering
Renewable Certification body Germanischer Lloyd (GL) recently held a ceremony with Romax Technology to celebrate the significant achievement of the 25th GL Statement of Compliance (A-Design Assessment Certification) over the last three years. The ceremony, held at Romax’ HQ in Nottingham, England on Wednesday, April 3rd 2013, involved key members of the Romax project team…
Romax finds a better way to keep an eye on your turbine fleet
InSight monitoring software on a turbine fleet can maximize reliability while minimizing O&M costs, says Romax Technologies. The company has announced the availability of its latest release of the Insight Health Management Suite of products and services for the wind industry. The InSight Solution, for use on onshore and offshore wind farms, lets wind farm…
New ideas for reducing the cost of energy
If the cost of energy is to come down to allow further growth in the wind industry, a lower cost, more reliable, and easily manufactured drive train will be at its core. The flexible drivetrain described here may be the best candidate yet Dr John Coultate/ R&D and Consultancy Dept. Leader/ Romax Technology Ltd. Dr Ashley…
Software provides next-gen gearbox and driveline design and optimization package
What the developer calls a revolutionary new concept, will significantly increase speed, quality, creativity, and innovation when designing gearboxes and drivelines. The software, called ‘Concept’, delivers on the Romax vision of streamlining the end-to-end planning to manufacture process with open, easy to use software. It has been developed in close collaboration with engineers in the…
Hybrid drivetrain design good for 3 to 10 MW versions
An independent gearbox and drivetrain-design specialist has launched a unique ‘medium-speed drivetrain design for the next generation of onshore and offshore wind turbines in capacities from 3 to 10 MW. Available to wind turbine designers and manufacturers worldwide, the Romax Butterfly platform for drivetrain design is benchmarked, says the company, to outperform the latest ‘medium…
Drivetrain design firm to launch next gen software at Husum
An engineering firm that specializes in gearbox and drivetrain design and performance optimisation, will launch its next generation drivetrain design platform at HUSUM WindEnergy 2012. Claiming it will ‘drive down the cost of wind energy’ by improving reliability, reducing downtime, and promoting easier, less frequent maintenance, Romax will unveil details of its new platform at…
Design firm awarded GL A-Design Assessment for 2 MW gearbox
Drivetrain Analysis and Wind Turbine Lifecycle Engineering Company, Romax Technology has been awarded the GL Renewables (GL) A-Design Assessment for its new range of WT2000 licensed 2-MW gearboxes. This high level of certification means the gearbox design has passed the most stringent independent requirements set for the wind industry. The WT2000 2-MW gearbox is the…