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How a Wind Turbine Maker Cut Blade Inspections by 80 Percent
Episode 163 of The Operations Podcast dives into wind turbine blade inspections—a maintenance bottleneck that can ground turbines for days. Lucas and Luna explore how one manufacturer slashed inspection time by 80 percent using drone swarms and AI image analysis. They break down the operational shift: from manual rope-access teams to automated drones that capture thousands of images per turbine, and the machine-vision models that detect micro-cracks before they become costly failures. The episode walks through the pilot program, the key performance metrics, and the cultural resistance from…
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