Press Release
February 2014

Pernille Wichmann Christensen
Business Development Manager Remote Monitoring Group
Tel.: +45 7741 2303
E-mail: wind@bkvibro.com

Opening of the New Surveillance and Diagnostic Service Centre in Houston

Today over 6,000 wind turbines world-wide are being continuously monitored by Brüel & Kjær Vibro condition monitoring systems and this number is increasing rapidly. To meet this growing demand, a new Surveillance and Diagnostic Service Centre was established in Houston, Texas (USA) to ensure 24/7 operations. The official opening took place on January 17th, 2014. This new service centre complements the centres already operating in Shanghai and Beijing, China (opened in 2012) and the HQ in 
Nӕrum, Denmark.

The ribbon cutting at the new Surveillance and Diagnostic Service 
Centre in Houston 

The four Surveillance and Diagnostic Service Centres provide services tailored to the local markets including monitoring and diagnostics, support, training and commissioning for all types of turbines, for wind park owners and operators, as well as wind turbine OEMs. 

The full-service agreements which Brüel & Kjӕr Vibro are renowned for, where all fault detection, diagnosis and reporting is performed by full-time ISO 18436 certified vibration analysts, will now be available locally in the rapidly growing US market. While the four centres tailor the services to the local market needs, they are interconnected, to ensure that best practices are shared across the regions and to enable the provision of around-the-clock response to all emergency service queries from all parts of the world.

The more than 1,500 systems already installed on wind turbines in the US will now be serviced by the Houston Service Centre. Strategically located in the south central part of the USA,  the location also gives access to the Mexican and Central/South American markets. Myron Hizak will head a team of diagnostic engineers and technicians.

For more information on our wind turbine monitoring solutions, including our newly released client-owned system, please go to http://www.bkvibro.com/en/monitoring-solutions/industries/power-generation/condition-monitoring-of-wind-turbines.html

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Company

Brüel & Kjær Vibro is the leading worldwide independent supplier of condition monitoring solutions for rotating machinery. The comprehensive product range comprises vibration sensors (acceleration, velocity and displacement), vibration monitors, handhelds and rack-based plant-wide integrated monitoring solutions. These products plus a suite of comprehensive services fulfil the most demanding applications for safety, condition and performance monitoring of rotating machinery. Monitoring in the power industry is a strategic focus area with numerous applications in the conventional thermal, cogeneration, nuclear, hydro and wind energy sectors.

Based on 50 years of experience and a world-wide sales and support network, Brüel & Kjær Vibro’s monitoring solutions have successfully reduced downtime and maintenance costs and increased machine reliability for our customers world-wide.

Brüel & Kjær Vibro is part of Spectris plc, the leading supplier of productivity enhancing instrumentation and controls.