The first writings of human beings were not stories, they were spreadsheets. The oldest marks of writing we can find concern accounting. And soon enough, spreadsheets became the main way of representing it. The tablet Plimpton 322, from -1800 (source wikipedia) Humankind created at the same time its most disastrous invention: spreadsheet errors! ...

Every single day, we hear a new Artificial Intelligence success story : winning video games competition, health diagnostic or allowing Mona Lisa to talk. A.I. is for sure the future, but how can you transform this impressive showcases demos to real-world productivity improvement? We always hear the same question: How to transition to A.I. without killing productivity for years. ...

To have a complete and easy overview of your blades, at Cornis we have developed machine learning tools to automatically rebuild calibrated panoramas of your blades. In this article I will give you a sneak peek of how we automatically transform all the images you take on site into a complete blade reconstruction. ...

During spring 2018, William1 a site manager needed to do end of warranty blade inspections. Because of other urgencies on site he had only 2 weeks to complete his inspections. With the deadline approaching he wanted to send his fastest technician on site. John1 and Harry1 had both been trained recently to use Panoblade and had already inspected during more than 30 days. By using Cornis Marks, William was able to see that Harry takes around 85mins per turbine and John only 68min. John is 20% faster which allows him to do one more turbine per day. ...

When doing inspections, the worst case scenario is to have to redo an inspection because the data acquired is not good enough to do an assessment. To check the quality of the data we process, we have built five metrics to have an objective and measurable point of view on the quality of the data and onsite acquisition work. ...

On Tuesday November 10th of 2015, in La Meuse (France) the three blades of a wind turbine fell off their masts, crushing the operator station in their fall. In 2018, 10% of global wind farm incidents were due to machine blades, 7% of which were due to blade falls. The costs of repairs related to these incidents are very high. Remember that the simple transport of a blade costs about 15 000€. ...