Building spare parts databases in collaboration

Why should, each and one, by themselves, in isolation, map a serial-produced machine?

For each turbine model, we all have the same starting point: the same spare parts list.

Why not collaborate: make it cheaper, and faster and at the same time create common leverage to diversify the aftermarket?

The simple suggestion is that we should have a turbine-specific spare database in the middle that is updated by O2O SPARES.

O2O SPARES will take lead on this and make sure it is made accurate with good continuity.

Our collaborators subscribe to this and can whenever they want to upload it into their own ERP system.

Today, this work is done within all energy companies that are responsible for their own spare parts supply. Our proposal is then to directly reduce these costs by having O2O SPARES as a joint task force.

Initially, we build the turbine-specific spare database with shared spare metadata from our collaborators. Every component in the turbine-specific spare database will be updated with spare metadata on these levels:

  • OEM: Part Number and Part Description

  • Supplier: Part Number and Part Description

  • Norm: RDS-PP or ISO 81346, Part Description and Taxonomy Coding

  • Internal: Some wind asset owners have their internal Part Number and/or Taxonomy Coding. This will be onboarded so that they can work with the numbers they are used to.

Digitally linking spare databases

Digitally linking spare databases will enable an exchange of components. O2OSPARES will be a neutral coordinator of equal treatment. Furthermore, we will ensure that only neutral, non-business critical info is shared. We will never have nor share any numbers on volumes or prices.

Our proven concept has a simple way of doing this exchange of components and O2O SPARES will apply their model. You log into O2O SPARES, specify the turbine model and then punch in a part number. Then the system will tell you which wind asset owners are likely to have this spare part and you can directly communicate with these companies’ spare part people. O2O SPARES is the facilitator. The actual deal is then made directly between the asset owners and O2O SPARES is not involved in any way in these commercial arrangements.

This is how it is done within our proven concept and within their collaboration, these component exchanges are done on a weekly basis!

As we have had the question on our meetings: Digitally linking spare databases does not mean that anyone will have access to your internal spare databases.

One team to serve a big number of energy companies

Wind asset owners are spending a lot of energy hunting for technical clarifications for their spare parts. Hunting these technical clarifications are done on the internet, by phone and also sending out people to the warehouse to do a manual mapping

As we are mapping serial-produced products our idea is to have one team as our joint task force to serve a group of wind asset owners with these technical clarifications.

Several wind asset owners have their own detective bureaus. This then means that they continue to mapp spare parts out in the ware house. They are not trying to map the entire spare part list. First they do a selection in the the first decides upon a selection of spare parts either based on

 Spare part pools

This already exists between owners at a national level for components with long delivery times. With linked spare part databases, among owners in several countries, this can be built on a much larger scale, with reduced costs, reduced risks and improved availability.

The O2O SPARES Prototype

Check out the O2O SPARES prototype for a deeper understanding for how we will systemize and make spare parts data available to enable the WTG owners to access:

  • more suppliers for each component,

  • have better information on alternative components,

  • keep track of obsolete components and

  • functionality for having an exchange of components among WTG owners.

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