14:30 - 16:00 The supply chain - thinking ahead!
Supply chain


Room: Hall F
This supply chain session looks at opportunities for mitigating risks by transferring offshore approaches to onshore operations. It explores how an industrialised non-EU country is preparing for wind ramp-up and how development of new technology can still use an existing supply chain.
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Learning objectives
Delegates will be able to:
- Explain how certification helps to ensure market compliance and technical risk mitigation;
- Describe how new product developments use established production processes;
- Elaborate on how the supply chain can contribute to lower levelised cost of energy;
- Explain that manufacturing surveillance can reduce risk wind farm loss of production;
- Describe the diversified supply chain of a non-EU high technology country.

Presenter

Co-authors:
Yoshinori Ueda (1) F Takao Maeda (2) Katsuhiko Shoji (3) Takatoshi Matsushita (4)
(1) The Japan Wind Power Association, Tokyo, Japan (2) Mie University, Tsu, Japan (3) The Japan Society of Industrial Machinery Manufacturers, Tokyo, Japan (4) The Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association, Tokyo, Japan
Presenter's biography
Biographies are supplied directly by presenters at WindEurope Summit 2016 and are published here uneditedYoshinori Ueda is the board member of the Japan Wind Energy Association (JWEA), the leader of the International Committee of both the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA) and the JWEA, the leader of the GWEC Japan Committee, the former chairman of the Wind Power System Technical Committee of the Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association (JEMA). He majored mechanical engineering in the Kyoto University and he had been working for the power plant production in the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.(MHI) for more than 30 years. He belongs to the JWPA and the JWEA now.
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