Suzlon Energy

Het bedrijf dat windturbinebladen ontwerpt, herziet zijn kwaliteitsmanagementsysteem om zijn ISO 9001-hercertificering te behouden en realiseert een productiviteitsstijging van 80% op het gebied van ontwerp.

Setting new standards in wind turbine blade design

A skilled engineering team in the Netherlands develops state-of-the-art composite wind turbine blades for renewable energy solutions provider Suzlon Energy. It’s part of the Indian company’s blade division and delivers a complete design service, covering material, structural, aerodynamic and process design.

Most of the team have honed their skills in blade design over many years, evolving how they work to keep up with the latest digital advances. To help them work even more productively, they use the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform on the cloud for all design, and product data and project management.

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Rebuilding the entire quality management system

“When I heard about the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, I knew it would completely transform our approach to design,” said Florens Wolters

“It’s a new environment and philosophy of bringing things together on one platform, from design to project management. It presented an exciting opportunity for us to transform how we work for the better.”

Florens Wolters

Manager of System Automation and Integration, Suzlon Energy

Now, when we have an audit, nobody panics.

“Switching from a very complex quality management system to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud encouraged us to make wider changes across our organization — gaining full control of our product data and automating tasks so we could deliver the same output and boost our design quality with the same resources,” Wolters added.

“The philosophy was totally new and refreshing.”

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Embracing the cloud for the better

When evaluating product lifecycle management (PLM) and quality management solutions on the market, it became clear that a cloud implementation would make sense for the Suzlon division, from both a cost and maintenance perspective. The small in-house team needed technology that could be installed easily, without additional servers or support, and guarantee data safety.

“IT is not our core business,” Wolters said. “We wanted to be able to focus more on design. It was a big deal for us to move to the cloud, but all our concerns around data security were addressed and it ended up being a great decision. Today, we know that our data is safeguarded in the platform. In fact, 3DEXPERIENCE was the pilot to prove the value of the cloud and we’re now embracing cloud-based software in other areas of our business.”

“The aim was to improve the quality of design and make it faster,” said Harald Bersee, VP of blade design and integration at Suzlon Energy.

“We wanted to automate our blade design concept studies as well as support activities like quality and project management.”

Saving time and boosting quality

One of the key areas that Suzlon wanted to improve with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform was document control. Having a clear process for creating, maintaining and accessing documents is critical for compliance with international standards such as ISO 9001. To pass its audit, Suzlon needed a robust quality management system with clear, simple workflows for version control and managing approvals of its blade designs.

“We rebuilt our entire quality management system in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” Wolters said. “It made sense to tie it in with our PLM and the auditor was impressed that we used the platform in such a way. We have retained our ISO certification without any fines. Now, when we have an audit, nobody panics. We can open the dashboard and all the information we need is there.”

This new approach is also helping Wolters and his team work more productively. ENOVIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform delivers easy access to the information they need within a single dashboard.

Reduce meetings with PLM dashboards

“Switching to a new way of working and using the dashboards in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform save so much time; our output has really increased,” Bersee said. “If we need to calibrate machines, everything is now controlled better. It’s a really dynamic environment.”

Project management is far more efficient as well. Improved access to information means that the team spends less time in meetings and sending emails back and forth.

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