Vestas improves global product development collaboration in cross-functional teams with Virtalis Visionary Render

Vestas uses Visionary Render from Virtalis to enable the global product development team to carry out bi-weekly design reviews in a collaborative immersive virtual environment.

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Vestas designs, manufactures, installs, and services wind turbines across the globe. It has installed more wind power than anyone else. It uses Visionary Render from Virtalis to enable the global product development team to carry out bi-weekly design reviews in a collaborative immersive virtual environment. This includes stakeholders from many disciplines - not only design teams but engineers from the assembly lines, sales people, service technicians, transportation experts and even health and safety specialists. Those teams collaborate in real time, across global sites as dispersed as the US, India and Denmark. Customers can even get involved in some review sessions to input from the field.

One of the key benefits for Vestas is in reducing the development timescales for new products and getting them out to their customers faster. It believes the company-wide adoption of immersive visualisation technology to connect product stakeholders has led to significantly decreased time to market. Its recently launched V112-3MW turbine is a case in point.

“The adoption of Visionary Render led to a more coherent design sooner than would have been possible by any other method.” - Alan Molbech, VR Administrator at Vestas

Immersive technology also allows Vestas to clearly demonstrate to customers the technical advantages of their product portfolio and the safety features of the design. Customers are taken on a virtual tour of the nacelle and are able to interact with the different components in the same way that onsite technical experts would do. The feedback from those customers is very positive. They find the experience to be both technically enlightening as well as enjoyable.