Wärtsilä launches new digital services to enhance performance and predictability of customers' assets
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W盲rtsil盲, a global leader in complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets, launches a new service portfolio, W盲rtsil盲 Genius services to help W盲rtsil盲's customers seize the opportunities from digitalisation.
The three product families under W盲rtsil盲 Genius services - Optimise, Predict and Solve - enable optimising of customers' assets in real time, improve predictability and help solving of issues with digital solutions. W盲rtsil盲 Genius services are targeted at marine, energy and oil and gas markets.
"This launch is a major milestone for us and for our customers. W盲rtsil盲 Genius services truly change the way our customers can benefit from effective use of real time data," says Pierpaolo Barbone, President, Services at W盲rtsil盲.
Answering to customer needs
W盲rtsil盲 Genius services portfolio is a result of profound background work and studies of customer and market needs.
In the marine markets, W盲rtsil盲's customers are typically seeking for increased reliability, ensuring safe operations in harsh environments, maximum uptime, greater operational efficiency and better environmental performance.
For the power generation market, there is a need for customers to cope with the increase in renewables, which creates the need for greater flexibility in power generation. Additionally, utilities and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in the energy sector are constantly looking for services that can decrease costs.
With W盲rtsil盲 Genius services, these needs will be easier and faster met.
"W盲rtsil盲 Genius services are designed to optimise, for example, an installation's energy efficiency, or even the management of an entire fleet. This will be done by integrating advanced dynamic voyage planning, ship efficiency advisory services and energy analysis, as well as extensive condition monitoring of the main equipment into one consolidated solution," says Ari-Pekka Saarikangas, Director, Asset Performance Optimisation of W盲rtsil盲 Services.
Optimise, Predict and Solve by W盲rtsil盲 Genius
W盲rtsil盲 Genius services comprise of three product families - Optimise, Predict and Solve.
Solutions and services within Optimise by W盲rtsil盲 Genius services are tailored to increase the competitiveness and efficiency of customers' operations. Optimise solutions will enable for example the following of fuel consumption in real-time and adjusting the ship's position to the optimal with the help of trim advice.
Predict by W盲rtsil盲 Genius services will improve customers' asset and business availability and predictability with lifecycle maintenance. For the customer this means better visibility into the coming maintenance need, thanks to which maintenance can be performed based on actual condition and not according to a predefined schedule. More efficient usage of assets throughout their lifetime helps to increase the owners' revenue.
Solve by W盲rtsil盲 Genius services will ensure the safety of customers' operations and allow them to get instant support whenever and wherever they need it. Thanks to Solve services, W盲rtsil盲's customer can share their computer screen with W盲rtsil盲 experts on shore. These remote support services provide customers with a 24/7 access to W盲rtsil盲's experts in its global service centres currently situated in Finland, the Netherlands, USA, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya, India and United Arab Emirates.
W盲rtsil盲 already has 500 installations connected with 3000 different pieces of equipment. W盲rtsil盲 Genius services now provide a comprehensive service portfolio to utilise the opportunities opened by real time data and related analytics. More information available on our website:
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