MODEOL aims to help bring about a transformation in Basque wind power component supplier companies, so they can gain a good position in this ever-changing market by adapting their designs and processes to supply both components ready for these modules and the modules as such, to ensure their competitiveness and profitability in the future. 

This transformation from components to modules also means that suppliers will have to improve their technological capabilities when the manufacturer requires reliable and tested modules that are able to be incorporated into various designs. These challenges arise from one of the main characteristics of wind power use, especially offshore wind power: the need to reduce costs.

Like in other sectors, when facing these challenges, research, technological development and innovation become essential tools for the development of new, competitive and reliable products and services. The companies that are part of this project are looking to improve, through module design and supply, the system's global technological response (by offering an improved and optimised design) and the global service for end clients, by reducing the number of iterations and partners between components and the wind turbine manufacturer, reducing logistics costs, simplifying the supply chain and cutting down transport costs.

Each product is currently designed individually and the specifications for each component are defined by the wind turbine manufacturer, by centralising all the information and interacting with each one of the component manufacturers. The information flow between components is managed by the turbine manufacturer, and the component manufacturer only receives the information defined by the former. Although this information is usually enough to create a reliable design for each component, sometimes it is insufficient if the component or system is to be optimised.

This is how the work plan will change, once the wind turbine manufacturer modularises and externalises the supply: The person in charge of the submodule manages the information exchange with the turbine manufacturer, so there is only one interlocutor. Internally, the person in charge of the submodule manages the product requirement information, with the aim of getting a single, optimal solution that meets all the client's demands. As a result, the final submodule will have optimised its weight, structural capacity, mountability and logistics to an extent that would not be possible with each component individually.