Siemens Gamesa Offshore Construction Training and Deployment Processes Go Digital

Background

With highly demanding quality and safety requirements and high technical complexity of products, the world’s largest offshore wind turbine manufacturer, Siemens Gamesa, performs continuous upskilling of technicians through on-the-job training on offshore construction sites.

Challenges

Siemens Gamesa, Offshore Construction employs nearly 1,000 technicians working offshore on different geographical locations and they faced huge challenges when upskilling and deploying technicians:

1. 1Time spent on training.
   With constant rotations of technicians and remote locations, managing training records on paper and Excel was time-consuming and challenging.
2. 2 Data damage or loss.
   Technicians’ significant travel schedules increased the risk of losing necessary on-job training documentation.
3. 3 Signatures verification.
   Getting all the required training checklists approved and signed by various parties was challenging.

Solution

The renewable energy company was looking for a transparent, automated and lean onboarding software to replace the previous manual paper processes. Siemens Gamesa’s employee product training processes were optimized by implementing Fluix as an internal training management software:

1. 1 Customized digital technician logbooks and new employee training checklists with an organized process to track progress of on-the-job training and upskilling. Each logbook consists of onsite task lists performed under the supervision of a trainer and must be signed off and approved by various parties on site and in the office. “Thanks to our digital logbooks, we make sure that our technicians have all the needed competencies and that they have been approved by everyone involved in the process” stated Christian Munck Jørgensen, Training Specialist.
2. 2 Deployment readiness checklists of all mandatory requirements to be fulfilled and validated before going to site (e.g. inductions, personal protection expiration, valid work visa etc.). Technicians must confirm each requirement through employee training tracking software in order to get the final “go” to be allowed to travel to site.

Results

• Accelerated approval process for technicians with employee training checklists and automated workflows, eliminated time-consuming, manual paper processes.
• Validated verification process with e-Signatures, ensures correct sign-off.
• Secured data with real-time updates and quick summary of technician’s progress on digital logbooks and checklists.
• Quicker deployment process and easier global rollout using Fluix.