Catch the Codes - Introduction of IEC-81346-2, -10 (RDS-PS) in U.S. Offshore Wind Projects

Presentation Description: The rapidly growing U.S. offshore wind market is providing opportunities for engineers based in the U.S. to interact with and learn from experts abroad the standards and methods for designing and managing offshore wind projects. RDS-PS coding is one such facet of these offshore wind projects. Using South Fork Wind as an example – one of the first commercial-scale offshore wind projects in the U.S. – this presentation will dive into how these codes are helpful for operators to strategically manage their assets, optimize operations, provide preventative and corrective maintenance, reduce downtime, and maintain peak efficiency.
RDS-PS (Reference Designation System for Wind Power Systems), a nomenclature system, used to standardize a name designation to describe the technical structure of power generation, transmission, and distribution assets. On South Fork Wind, Orsted (the Denmark-based project developer) proposed to use uniform RDS-PS coding throughout the project and as a template for documentation across Orsted Wind Power according to International Industrial Standards, by building a MASTER Asset Register.
Each RDS-PS number is a unique “code”, and the code structure is built systematically, to give a generic understanding of RDS-PS and how to use it to number systems, components, and documentation. The RDS-PS coding system has an alphanumerical (letters and numbers), hierarchical structure with an increasing level of detail, starting with the site code and ending with the DCC (Document kind Classification Code). This syntax is built in the Asset Register, which then gets used as reference data for creating field nameplates/name tags for easy identification of different components at the site.