Siemens said that the aim of the cooperation is to further development of the drive train for wind turbines, focusing on points such as efficiency, reliability and service life. A further aim of this long-term cooperation project is to assist in recruiting qualified personnel for Siemens Power Generation’s (SPG) rapidly growing wind power sector.
Siemens will set up a competence center in Aachen in late 2008. The first joint projects with Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) are planned to kick off in January 2008. The Machine Tool Laboratory and the Institute for Machine Elements from RWTH are also included in the cooperation project.
The company said that the development will concentrate on a number of fields including gear box design, fabrication and analysis. Joint activities with the Institute for Machine Elements will pursue development of bearings.
