The Vestas mission “Failure is not an option” expresses the organisation’s commitment to optimising its work processes, to safety and products and to a structured follow-up on all errors. By the end of 2008, most of Vestas and most of its suppliers were 4 Sigma, which is a prerequisite for increasing the EBIT margin in the years ahead. Vestas expects to reach 5 Sigma by the end of 2010 on its path to reaching 6 Sigma not later than in 2015. It should be emphasised that Vestas’ customers, Vestas’ earnings and its reputation continue to suffer from a few suppliers’ inadequate production and quality management. Therefore, Vestas regularly establishes relations with new suppliers with a commitment to reach 6 Sigma in a joint effort with Vestas.
Vestas currently monitors about 15,000 turbines, or 25,000 MW, round the clock, and this opens up for effective maintenance planning and higher uptime and performance for the turbines, benefiting customer earnings and Vestas' expenditure, as Vestas’ service technicians are now able to service more than twice as many turbines as they were at the beginning of 2008. The monitoring of 68 per cent of Vestas’ total installed capacity is extended by about 10 MW each day. Improved quality and enhanced productivity reduce the costs and also lower the price of new capacity and, by extension, the price of Vestas’ growth. Failure is not an option also applies to Triple15.
