When you need guaranteed execution, APM delivers. Our APM Fossil North Team was recently recognized at the PGS North America Conference for their teamwork and execution excellence for the Spring 2014 NRG Hunterstown Outages...
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This year we return to the edge of our Fall outage season after a great 2014 Superintendent Conference in Orlando, Florida. We had over 400 in attendance, including APM Superintendents, GETSCO Superintendents, GSSI Safety Specialists and APM Corporate management and personnel. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the event to gear up for the upcoming outage seasons...
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Top expert teams from craft labor affiliate APM, as well as PGS North America Field Services, PGS Global Services Excellence and Customer Outage Engineering spent a week in Greenville, SC at the new 7FA.03 Gas Turbine Outage Simulator (GTOS) focused on reducing the number of craft labor man hours associated with a 7FA Major Inspection. Prior to working on the GTOS, the teams spent a day in Mooresville, NC (Race City, USA) learning the inner workings of motorsports pit crews and the critical essence of speed and productivity in that industry...
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When you want innovative techniques, APM delivers. A member of our APM Fossil West Team, Art Diaz, recently helped to design and implement a tool that produced tremendous cost savings for our customer. During the job, the customer requested replacement of the 3rd stage aft wheel discourager seal...
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When you want everyone to go home safe, APM delivers. Our APM Specialty Services Projects Manager at Exxon Mobil in Baytown, TX, Ronnie Campbell, recently received the “Nobody Gets Hurt” safety award on behalf of GE Oil & Gas and APM...
Read MoreWhen you set outage priorities and objectives, APM delivers. Our APM GETSCO Canada team recently received a letter of appreciation from the Kingston Generating Station’s General Manager, Steve Collings, for their excellent work on the Northland Power outage in April...
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When safety is your priority, APM delivers. APM’s affiliate, Global Safety Sources, Inc. (GSSI), guarantees an innovative crew working to improve safety programs and ensure safe job environments for site visitors and workers. One of our GSSI Safety Specialists, Steve Conrad, recently partnered with GE South Region EHS Manager, Steve Davis, to implement a new program for labeling secondary chemical containers...
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When you ask for quality work and positive attitudes, APM delivers. Our GETSCO Canada team recently received recognition from GE Field Service Engineer, Said Ouldkaddour, for their excellent fulfillment on a Gas Turbine 7EA Shutdown...
Read MoreWhen you need quality and accountability on your jobsite, APM delivers. Our APM Fossil Team in the West region was recently recognized for their vigilance and dedication to FME (Foreign Material Exclusion) awareness. During a job, two of our APM crew members, Jorge Jimenez and Martin Horenburg, were assisting the Generator Specialist and discovered two pieces of tie wire in the turbine end generator directly under the location where the UT flow scaffolding was tied into the generator axial gussets...
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When you want guaranteed safety and accountability, APM delivers. One of our Nuclear Teams recently displayed their commitment to our STOP program and LOTO (Lockout/Tagout) initiatives by speaking up before beginning an unsafe task that could have resulted in severe injury or even death...
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The APM Pulse Team joined together for the 2013 Houston Heart Walk against cardiovascular disease and stroke on Saturday, November 16th. We are proud of our team for stepping up to show support for this important cause. The walk consisted of a 5k route around the Reliant Arena and Astrodome complex. Sponsored by the American Heart Association, the affair was filled with as many educational opportunities as it was fun, with tents, health booths, live music and more. It was a great day to network with other local groups while learning about heart health, and although it was a misty day in Houston, there was no shortage of participants at the walk...
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As we return from our 2013 Superintendent Training in Las Vegas, we would like to thank everyone again who participated. This was our largest Vegas training yet, with a total of 423 attendants, including APM Superintendents, GSSI Safety Specialists, Viceroy management and personnel, and all of the guests. We enjoyed having our GSSI Team join us this year and look forward to many other collaborative events in the future. This training event took a lot of dedication and coordination between our teams to run as smoothly as it did, and we are very proud of the excellent contributions to make this a success! We tried out some new ideas this year and hope you agree that they were a big hit! To mention one, we offered a wide variety of soft skill training sessions on Wednesday. By utilizing the badge scanners for these sessions, we can now evaluate what kind of soft skill training you were interested in. This will help us better prepare for future training events...
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Pasadena recently bid farewell to one of its GE 7FA turbine rotors on January 31st of this year. The rotor was given to the APM SS Division by GE in early 2011 to use for training purposes. Over the years, it has served its time as a truly effective training tool, assisting in the training process for many APM SS Blade Technicians on multiple work scopes including removal and installation of buckets for F class gas turbines, biscuit mod, blend polish and peen, blade blending, erosion blending and flapper peening. The training mock-up in Pasadena is indicative of performing these processes at a site where the rotor is out of the machine and on rollers.
Knowing that internal parts of the training rotor we had was needed to repair a flooded power plant rotor in the Northeast (Coyote), the APM SS Division returned the rotor back to the GE Houston Service Center and replaced our training mock-up with a spare rotor from the Pasadena APM yard. The lead guys involved in the move were APM Personnel, Steven Putman, John Syphrett, Robert Thibodeaux and Kendall Tennyson...
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