Towards farm-level health management of offshore wind farms for maintenance improvements

This paper studies a conceptual architecture for health management of offshore wind farms. To this aim, various necessary enablers of a health management system are presented to improve reliability and availability while optimizing maintenance costs. The main focus lies on improving existing condition monitoring systems based on concepts of condition-based maintenance and reliability centered maintenance. A brief review of the relevant state-of-the-art is presented and gaps to be filled towards realization of such health management system are discussed.

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