Digital O&M for offshore wind
Føn Energy Services, an
independent service provider to the offshore wind industry, has signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cognite, a provider of industrial
software, to collaborate on the development of digital offerings within
the operation and maintenance (O&M) segment of offshore wind.
As part of the partnership,
Føn Energy Services intends to leverage Cognite's industrial data operations
platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, to enable offshore wind farm operators
to utilise industrial data for quick and secure collaboration in developing,
operationalising, and scaling industrial AI solutions and applications
to drive profitability, increase efficiency, reduce cost of offshore operations
and ensure sustainability.
Føn Energy Services
was launched in 2022, backed by Oslo-listed industrial investment company
Akastor, which has the Aker group as its largest shareholder, and Norwegian
industrial group IKM..
“Industrializing and
digitizing O&M is a key reason behind why Føn was established. We see
a significant need for reducing cost through doing more work onshore, significantly
improving delivery quality, optimising the ’working time offshore’ and
using data to reduce costs of unscheduled maintenance”, says Rahman Khanani,
CEO of Føn Energy Services. Cognite Data Fusion® will allow us to digitise
our processes, reduce OPEX for our customers while reducing the cost of
lost production.
Cognite is a global
industrial SaaS company that has been established to empower industrial
companies with contextualised, trustworthy, and accessible data to help
drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around
the world.
"At Cognite, we
are heavily focusing on our Asset Performance Management (APM) offering
as a critical component in helping industrial companies develop a safer,
more efficient, and more sustainable future," said IngarLandet, VP
of Business Development, Power & Renewables at Cognite. "Our collaboration
with Føn Energy Services will allow us to combine our APM offering towards
Offshore Wind owners with Føn Energy Services' domain knowledge and cost-efficient
O&M solutions to deliver a joint digital offering that benefits the
offshore wind industry.