The game changer for platform owners

LiMain by Liebherr allows for maintenance whenever, wherever

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Essentially, LiMain, which is short for Liebherr Intelligent Maintenance, will enable anyone to be entirely in charge of the platform without having it in sight. The new product has enormous potential to enhance and simplify work on platforms and, consequently, change the way we think about maintenance fundamentally.

The foundation of LiMain is its modular system architecture consisting of four modules: Automatic Greasing, Condition Monitoring, Predictive Maintenance, and Remote Maintenance Cycle. The given package enables operators to determine the scope of intelligent maintenance that not required. Besides, with no such zigzag-movement, the carbon footprint is reduced. “LiMain and its compelling modular system is indeed priceless. This magnifcent feature simply enables you to act whenever, wherever. Ideally, you need to visit your platform only once during an entire year, representing an extraordinary business advantage for each and every platform owner”, says Stefan Schneider, Global Application Manager for General Purpose Ofshore Cranes of Liebherr. If you can remain – or ‘LiMain’ – where you are, you basically work independently of time and space. As a fully digital, semiautomatic, and remote maintenance system, LiMain embodies the future workplace in a digitalised world. Consequently, it empowers platform owners to remotely take decisive action anytime without having to ‘go there’. Digitalisation is also always about security, which Liebherr has focussed on as well. Because of a VPNencryption embedded into a tunnel solution, LiMain and the crane data is protected against access for third parties.

meets their particular needs. In fact, up to 75% less mobilisation and up to 50 fewer man-days on platforms are possible. As a result, platform owners will save immensely on resources, may it be on personnel, material, or transport. It is impressive how this unique system works and how it looks.

Whether in industry or service, the economy is massively profting from things such as big data and it is

increasingly relying on it. So when predictive maintenance can provide decades worth of Liebherr crane construction knowledge, the advantages are striking, especially when intertwined with live data from condition monitoring. That is why predictive maintenance will ofer more than just helping to understand how components work most efectively or when they will require replacement. In addition to enhancing accuracy and safety regarding transport, customer care, and interaction between parts and personnel, the information will also champion development in order to build better components in years to come.

LiMain reduces the need for maintenance technicians on platforms while shortening the time spent there.

All this goes to show that LiMain will improve crane availability and, more importantly, lower operational costs (OPEX), which is key for platform owners because it defnes their respective proft margin. According to market experts, the installed capacity will be more than sixfold in the global ofshore wind market You can ‘LiMain’ where you and the individual size of wind turbines is are predicted to grow to up to 20MW until Crucially, LiMain reduces the need for end of this decade so that, overall, maintenance technicians on platforms ofshore wind will play a key role. Yet, the while shortening the time spent there. hunger for energy consumption is vast, Simply put, when an engineer fies to an meaning that ‘old’ energy forms still installation far away to do a check-up, satisfy a huge demand. LiMain can inform them beforehand if, for Nevertheless, new ‘green jobs’ are example, a part needs replacement. Thus, available, attractive particularly among ensuring that all parts are available, so the younger folks fnding it appealing to machine has no unnecessary downtime progress with ‘change’ for a greener earth. and additional travel and working time is Moreover, individual comfort for skilled >>

• Automatic Greasing: will continuously check critical components, automatically lubricate them when needed, even in complexly installed positions.

• Condition Monitoring: beneftting from sensor technology, detailed data about crane as well as its components is monitored in real-time delivering an unprecedented level of insight.

• Predictive Maintenance: puts ad-hoc data into context, building on decades of experience from the construction of over thousand ofshore cranes. The module serves as the foundation for an optimised product and component lifecycle.

• Remote Maintenance Cycle: representing the combination plus interconnection of all the aforementioned models, the crane is actively moved but semi-automatic maintenance and self-diagnosis is enabled.

personnel workers is increasingly important. Over 70 years of Liebherr experience in the business as well as transfer of knowledge from diferent product segments have gained Liebherr the position to champion and implement smart technologies to unfold full potential for the platform market. This could mean that people can be miles away, while controlling components even from their hometowns. Similarly, visits to faraway places could use up shorter amount of time, fewer personnel are on board at once, yet less information is lost due to miscommunication because components interact automatically. Machinery will be up and ready quicker, which is a big pro among platform workforces. This allows platform owners to acquire new talent. They may gain market participation. In conclusion, LiMain is a striking game changer because it is paving the future of the platform market. Platform owners, hence, can save on resources while maintenance is made easy by LiMain. In consequence, this will attract personnel needed for tomorrow’s market share within a big energy business.