Get the Buzz ... APM Canada Impresses The Customer With Their Dedication To Live Outage
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In Fort Mcmurray, Alberta, APM Canada mobilized at Heartland Muskeg River for a hot gas path inspection. The outage lasted from March 27, 2024 until April 15th, 2024 and ended with approximately 4,000 manhours completed with ZERO recordable injuries or quality issues! The team’s dedication to the Live Outage initiative impressed the customer and aided their success.
The Live Outage initiative transitioned jobsites from paper and extensive behind the scenes preparations in an office to using tablets, productivity tooling, and technology on deck. This allows the jobsite team to be more responsive to changes that arise during an outage. Throughout the course of this outage, there were new sequencing changes that the team onsite had to work through, but by embracing the live outage they were able to impress the customer with their ability to adapt to new changes!
Here are some quotes from the customer:
“The team rolled out the new efficiency tooling and live outage for our recent HGPI. This was new tooling, processes, and sequencing of activities. Meetings were held before the outage going over concerns we had with rolling out new tools and procedures with crews that were unfamiliar with their use. The concerns were taken seriously, and words were put into action in the lead-up and through the execution of the outage. This was the fastest HGPI we have executed in our fleet. The big metrics were we had zero safety incidents during the outage and zero quality/rework coming out of the outage as well.”
“This outage had the greatest innovations and improvements I have seen in my 20 years of working with the organization to benefit the GE crews performing maintenance on the 7EA gas turbines. Outside of the time savings, the improvements make the work safer and easier for the APM crews executing the work. I really appreciate seeing these improvements and the re-investment and innovation into improving how the organization executes work and not continuing to do what they always have done.”
“For example, the western Canada APM team were open and willing to try out the new equipment and new execution sequencing etc. I heard the crew members in the lunchroom talking positively about the new tools for doing the shrouds and nozzles.”
Leading the outage of 40 total craftspeople was the Dayshift APM Superintendent, Tim Fisher, and the Nightshift APM Superintendent, Brad Reimer. We’d also like to recognize our APM Canada EHS Professionals, Neil Hamilton (dayshift) and Brendon Hewer (nightshift), as well as the rest of the APM Canada Team for their commitment to the Live Outage initiatives that are vital to the success of these programs. They followed sequencing and used Live Outage to its fullest capabilities because of their investment to reach the ultimate goal of an outage – 0 injuries, 0 quality issues, and a satisfied customer.