APM Steam Fossil Takes on a Growing Scope to Deliver Safety and Quality at 100%

APM Steam Fossil along with FieldCore, and supporting teams, ventured to a steel mill located in Indiana, to conduct a bearing inspection. As the team began their routine inspection procedures, removal of the turbine shell led to findings of mass damage that occurred due to high condensation in a steam admission line.

The original scope expanded to include manufacturing and installation of new L-3 buckets, bucket blending, laser alignment of the steam path, diaphragm, turbine shell, and bearing repairs. A rotor and major inspection curtailed the growing list.

All work was performed flawlessly by skilled Millwrights and APM Certified Mechanics, Morgan Roberts, John Luther, Shawn Myers, Jared Dillow, and Trevor Otworth, on a shift-based schedule. Field Engineer, Jake Detec, Superintendents, Mark Cole and Jason Bowen, worked closely to ensure zero safety or quality incidents occurred throughout the duration of the outage.

“APM was very happy to get to be a part of this investigation that turned in to quite a successful large industrial outage...The entire crew did an excellent job adapting to the changes each day as the scope grew,” commented APM Superintendent, Mark Cole.

Safety and Quality Success

Jason Bowen and Mark Cole kept constant communication in daily shift tasks during and after turnovers. They walked through the turbine deck to update and help each other become well acquainted on where they are in specific processes. They also took time to discuss and resolve heightened issues or concerns.

“Both day and night shift teams did an excellent job with safety and quality in mind,” praised APM Superintendent, Jason Bowen.

Customer Win

The majority of necessary repairs were completed on site, on time, and safely. This helped save critical time within the outage and brought the site unit to full power sooner.

“The entire team communicated with us very well throughout the process. They understood the need to return the unit to service as soon as possible and identified options that helped make that happen. Their on-site manager was very thorough, very capable, and very willing to work with our team in identifying the failure root causes and helped communicate them to our executive team,” commented a customer representative.

Thank you to APM Steam Fossil, FieldCore, GE, and Millwrights of Local #1076 in executing a well-organized outage with great care in quality and safety to deliver first-class service excellence to our customer!