Often times digitalization is implemented within an organization without clear understanding of how digital tools can be used to address problems and generate business value. This is according to Sentient Science, which has developed a new damage classification standard for the wind industry. For example, the first wave of digitalization involved digitizing the standard SCADA…

  Sentient Science has contracts in place to model 40,000 wind turbines, obtaining 35% of the world’s wind-turbine model types. Sentient’s customers use DigitalClone software platform for both short and long-term life predictions and life-extension actions unique to each installed wind turbine. With the addition of China’s Longyuan Power Group, one of the world’s largest wind operator, Sentient Science…

Frost & Sullivan, a Growth Partnership firm, recognized Sentient Science and its flagship DigitalClone life extension solution for wind turbines with their New Product Innovation Award for Wind Prognostics. According to Frost & Sullivan, the award recognizes that Sentient’s DigitalClone software has addressed the challenges in accurately predicting mechanical failure of wind turbines beyond the capabilities of monitoring to a…

Sentient Science, a provider of digital platforms that lower the cost of energy, has appointed Dr. Amine Chigani as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Dr. Chigani will lead the team responsible for the DigitalClone platform, a service that enables wind energy owners, operators, and suppliers to understand and predict crack initiation in critical components, optimize designs and extend…

Sentient Science announced that Toronto, Ontario-based growth equity firm, Georgian Partners, will fund $22.5 million in a Series B, growth-stage investment in the materials science-based software as a service company. Sentient’s expansion in the wind-energy market, providing prognostic health monitoring and life-extension actions for fielded wind turbines will soon be available to commercial customers in the aerospace and rail markets. Capital funds…

Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable EnergyLaboratory (NREL) have been awarded Department of Energy funding to work with Sentient Science on the development of a prognostic solution to predict and extend wind-turbine blade life. Sentient Science, which developed its DigitalClone Live software using four technical pillars (materials science, data science, tribology, and multi-body dynamic system modeling)…

Routine wind-turbine maintenance once required a wind technician to suit up and climb up-tower just to inspect what components might need upkeep or repair. Today, wind farms can offer owners a whole new way to approach operations and maintenance, thanks to condition monitoring and advanced prognostic systems. Condition monitoring is an O&M tool that helps…

Renewable energy company, ACCIONA Energía, and industrial software firm Sentient Science have reached an agreement for life extension and improved efficiency of ACCIONA’s entire fleet of wind turbines. The agreement, signed at the WindEnergy Hamburg fair, covers the possible use and validation by ACCIONA of Sentient’s DigitalClone Live technology to anticipate possible failures in key components of turbines…

Sentient Science, a trusted third party representing the needs of wind operators, has released its new product DigitalClone Live for Suppliers this week at the American Wind Energy Association WINDPOWER conference in New Orleans. DigitalClone software, which is accessible to operators through an online portal, uses materials science-based computational models of the gearbox to predict life. Today,…

The relationship between the OEM, supplier and operator has never been transparent in the wind industry. Operators have historically used suppliers recommended by the OEM or only purchased solely based on price, because the failure rates of the components and gearbox are not typically disclosed. Sentient knows those failure rates and has been aggregating the…

O&M crews work hard making sure wind turbines hit the 20-year mark as profitable machines. As they close in on that birthday, it may be necessary to curb their power outputs, although some cases allow boosting it a bit. But how do the changes affect reliability and what its return on investment? Stephen Steen at…

Regardless of industry, businesses face internal or external challenges that can be a speed bump to progress. This is especially true in regard to the wind turbine industry, an industry that is working tirelessly to find solutions to their avian dilemma. Put simply, the wind turbine industry is looking for ways to significantly decrease the…

Behrooz Jalalahmadi and Stephen Steen, Sentient Science Corp A recent prognostics-based alternative to conventional condition monitoring methods provide cloud-based modeling and clever software to accurately simulate real-world operating conditions for specific machine components. The system uses a digital model to represent a serialized asset such as a single wind turbine, and how it reacts under different operating conditions.…

Sentient Science announced that thirteen new commercial and government customers chose DigitalClone to predict and extend the life of their mechanical equipment across the Industrial Internet. John Deere, BP, Sikorsky Aircraft, Energy Northwest, Boeing, Minnesota Power, Westar Energy, Penoles, the National Science Foundation, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, and Moog signed new contracts…

First Wind and Sentient Science have signed a 10 year agreement to deploy a new generation of autonomous, predictive, condition maintenance, monitoring systems that let First Wind monitor the life of its wind turbines. The new capability, developed by Sentient Science, will calculate the remaining useful life of 150 Clipper Wind Liberty 2.5 MW turbine…

Most in the wind industry are aware that the main source of premature wind turbine failures is its gearbox. As a result, wind farm operators must evaluate the asset risk of their turbines because the average cost of fixing a wind turbine is between $300,000 and $700,000 per failure. This means wind-farm operators can easily…