APM Marks Outage with First Time Parallel Rebucket

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”-  Molière

APM, in conjunction with FieldCore and On Site Services, recently brought new heights to the largest project execution during an outage at Exelon’s LaSalle nuclear plant in Illinois.

Their task was to replace 672 buckets in three LP steam turbines within a two-week timeline. 36 Bucket Techs, 12 Work Leaders, 6 Supervisors, 4 Welders, 4 Machinists, and 224 APM Millwrights effectively collaborated to complete this job and finished five days ahead of schedule. The mighty group kept the project’s momentum by exercising a continuous-motion game plan that enabled a 24-hour, 7-day work week.

This is the first time three LP rotors have been rebucketed in parallel by APM and GE.

Along with the work scope, the outage brigade completed inspections on the generator, control valves, and repaired a leak. There were zero incidents, OSHA recordables, human performance errors, first aids and near misses.

Planning played an essential role in this success. The team began the pre-outage process with Exelon in May of 2019 and led the plan into February of 2020 when work was mobilized. This included important details such as, parts inventory reviews, and mitigation plans for 25 potential risk factors.

“You guys did an EXCELLENT job. Great planning, great execution, great attitude,” said Exelon’s Customer Outage Manager, Bob Bolek.

The shortened outage allowed Exelon to restart ahead of schedule, achieve additional revenue and most importantly, supply power to the people of Illinois.

Congratulations to On Site Services, FieldCore and APM for achieving success!

Read GE’s article here: https://www.gesteampower.com/steam-power-americas/