Public Funding for Gss Avionics Limited

The TAM project is aimed at providing the Wind Energy Sector and the British Gear Association Partners with a Health Monitoring System that will reduce through-life costs and improve the supply, efficiency and reliability of UK wind Energy. High costs arise from the frequent, unpredictable failure of high-value transmission components (e.g. gearboxes), which could be prevented if fault development could be reliably detected. To this end, this industry led collaborative project will investigate novel eddy current sensor and electronics technologies that have the potential to provide a step change on existing sensing technologies by drawing on research at the University of Oxford and combining it with technology transfer from development partners in the Aerospace and Defence sectors along with experience from the Wind Turbine manufacturing industry .

The project uses augmented reality on a series of tablet devices to provide training support for in-field and in-house maintenance of built structures and energy systems.