ensuring product reliability in the wind power industry

ENSURING PRODUCT RELIABILITY
IN THE WIND POWER INDUSTRY
Processes, methods and best practice
– what can the wind industry learn from the automobile
and aerospace industries?
Tuesday 6th October 2009
9.30-16.30
Vestas Technology R&D
Hedeager 42,
8200 Århus N
Vindmølleindustrien
Rosenørns Allé 9, 5.
1970 Frederiksberg C

Programme
Programme
9.30-10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.10 Welcoming remarks, Jakob Lau Holst, COO, Danish Wind Industry
Association and Lise Backer, Vestas, Chairman of
the Danish Wind Industry Association’s R&D Committee
Quality and Reliability seen from above
10.10-10.40 Kill complexity to ensure quality and reliability – the structure, meth
ods and processes of your organization, Niels Søndergaard, Partner,
Implement
Ensuring Reliability in Design and Manufacturing
10.40-11.00 Vestas’ strategic focus on Business Case Certainty, Sanjeev Pratap
Singh, Team Leader Verification, Vestas Technology R&D
11.00-11.20 How can Six Sigma increase Product Reliability - SKF experiences,
Annika Ölme, Business Unit Manager, SKF
11.20-11.40 Ensuring product reliability in cooperation between sub-suppliers
and their customers, Klaus Olesen, Thermal Design Specialist,
Danfoss Silicon Power
11.40-12.40 Lunch
Ensuring Relibility in Operations and Maintenance
12.40-13.00 Reliability in operations and maintenance – Experiences from the
offshore wind sector, Niels Emsholm, Offshore manager, DONG
Energy Power
Experiences with Reliability – learning from automobile,
aerospace and other industries
13.00-13.30 Management of the supplier, subsupplier cooperation to secure
product reliability – testing and validation of components for the
automobile industry, Larry Edson, Larry Edson Consulting Inc.
13.30-14.00 Meeting component reliability demands of the aerospace industry
– experiences and recommendations, Gianluca Andrei, Head of
Transmission System Engineering, AeroEngine Division,
Engineering AVIO
14.00-14.30 Coffee Break
14.30-15.00 Reliability from design and R&D to production and operation,
Lars Rimestad, Grundfos
Common Wind Industry Initiatives for improved reliability,
availability and maintainability
15.00-15.45 Panel discussion
Panel: Per Hessellund Lauritsen, Siemens Wind Power
Peter Hauge Madsen, Risø DTU
Niels Emsholm, DONG Energy
Lars Kjær Mortensen, PMC Technology
Flemming Skov Iversen, Svendborg Brakes
15.45-15.50 Final remarks, Jakob Lau Holst, COO,
Danish Wind Industry Association
15.50- Refreshments and networking