Boulder, USA and Seoul, Korea
ONYX Insight, a major global provider of predictive maintenance solutions (PdM) and Nearthlab, a leading drone technology company, have announced a formal partnership that delivers whole turbine predictive maintenance in one cohesive solution.
The industry is currently seeking to make operations more efficient, amidst the backdrop of a labor, resource and inflation-challenged environment. Together ONYX and Nearthlab will bring capabilities for large operators that address these challenges.
As part of this partnership, ONYX will utilize Nearthlab’s experience with mobile drone technology, reducing reliance on the availability of trained drone pilots and enabling self-performing operators to perform visual inspections of their turbines’ blades for substantially lower costs.
Proven in autonomous flight, and with the latest technology in mobile and blade AI, Nearthlab are a natural partner to ONYX, the market leader in wind turbine predictive maintenance.
“After 2 years of collaboration with Nearthlab across large fleet of assets, we’ve identified strong benefits to turbine health management by combining our technologies into one unified offer. For major components in a fleet, the damage cases can be managed efficiently, end-to-end, from detection through to repair and QAQC”
Ashley Crowther, Chief Commercial Officer, ONYX Insight
Combining this with ONYX’s depth of experience in turbine reliability engineering, the integration of drivetrain, blade health monitoring, and enterprise management systems into a single business ecosystem is a unique proposition that will transform how wind turbines are managed.
And with ONYX now able to monitor 85% of major component failures, an all-in-one turbine health management provider delivers the confidence to self-perform sooner, enabling owner/operators to identify problems earlier, manage them with fewer resources, and ultimately bring down the overall cost of wind farm operations.
“ONYX is a natural partner due the recognition in the market of their leading position in turbine predictive maintenance, and they provide reach into many markets with their global presence. Our new mobile technology will upend how drone inspections are conducted by owner/operators and combines well with ONYX expertise.”
Jay Choi, CEO & Co-Founder, Nearthlab
The partnership with Nearthlab augments ONYX’s existing wealth of blade design and testing maintenance expertise, and strengthens their commitment to delivering comprehensive, world-class monitoring beyond the drivetrain.
About Nearthlab
Founded in 2015, Nearthlab provides AI-powered O&M solutions for the infrastructure inspection market. Nearthlab combines AI and computer vision to solve inefficiencies at inspection sites and facilitate the digital transformation of industrial asset management.
With extensive experience in wind turbine blade inspection, Nearthlab’s autonomous drone takes fifteen minutes of flight time to finish the inspection of one wind turbine. Data collected from the inspection is uploaded onto Nearthlab’s data management platform, Zoomable, to be analyzed into valuable insights assisting companies to optimize their operation and maintenance procedures. Nearthlab’s portfolio spans over wind energy, oil and gas, railway, bridges, dams, and telecom towers. Leading energy corporations have selected Nearthlab as their autonomous drone solution provider. Make inspection easy with drone-driven data.
About ONYX Insight
ONYX Insight is the leading global predictive analytics solution provider, with a combination of software, hardware, consultancy & engineering services to the wind industry and has globally proven to deliver efficiency driving solutions operating across 14,000 wind turbines in 30 countries across the world.
ONYX Insight is an award-winning global, renewable, technology business. We bring unbiased predictive analytics underpinned by real-world engineering expertise to owners and operators of renewable energy assets via seven global offices and 10 patents. We work collaboratively with our customers, at every stage of the asset life cycle to provide efficiency-driven, cutting-edge solutions across thousands of wind turbines that optimise asset performance while minimising downtime.