Plant Efficiency Improvement by Effective Maintenance Procedures: a Case Study of Wind Farms Limited, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.), India

Abstract

The Madhya Pradesh (M.P.) Wind Farms Limited Dewas, India is a leading power generating industry in wind power and it is having 58 conventional wind electric generators along with 58-unit sub stations and three main sub stations. At present this machine, which is an integral part of case company, is not running smoothly, it is observed that there are too many breakdowns and due to this it is causing too many difficulties to the maintenance department. Initially as such no scheduled maintenance program was given by the supplier, which leads to number of problems like production loss, lack of quality power and too much time consuming, so it is intended to reform this expensive conventional system and bring about a lot of improvement in the way of handling this machine. Preventive maintenance can provide the effective solution to this. This companion part of the paper presents the overall analysis of operating status of the machines of Wind Farms Limited, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.), India, which is a leading power generating company in wind power sector as per the analytical data collected for continuous five years. According to the data the need of preventive maintenance can be executed.