In Newark Arkansas, Steam Fossil mobilized on August 28, 2022 for two LP majors, valves major, and two turbine upgrades. To prepare, there was an onsite pre-outage planning meeting and APM meetings with the GE and the customer. These preparations paid off when Steam Fossil completed the project by December 19, 2022 with zero incidents or injuries!
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In LaPlace, Louisiana on February 28th, 2022, APM Steam Fossil began the Entergy Little Gypsy Outage. To prepare for the job scope of a High Pressure (HP) major inspection and a boiler feed turbine major inspection, there were pre-job discussions, online training, and several conference calls with superintendents, GE representatives, and craft professionals. By the time the job concluded on July 28th, there was a grand total of 27,100 manhours worked and ZERO safety incidents. Wow!
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“In February of 2022, our diligent Gas West Team travelled to Griffith Energy Power Plant in Golden Valley, Arizona to conduct a 7FA Major Inspection. Led by APM Superintendent, Alex Blas, the single-shift crew consisted of 12 Millwrights and one Millwright Crane Operator.”
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During the Spring Outage Season, the APM Boiler Canada team deployed in Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Québec, Canada, at Nordic Kraft Pulp and Paper Mill, responding to two failing smelt spouts. Smelt spouts are extremely critical to the chemical recovery process of the pulp and paper mill industry. Restoring the functions of this critical equipment as soon as possible was vital to our new customer.
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It is not uncommon for our craftspeople to travel across the globe to deliver their expertise and first-class customer service while meeting new people and making new friends in the duration of a project or job. These new connections can last a lifetime. In addition to completing a highly successful outage in Japan, many lasting friendships were created during the outage, and solidified while participating in a local community service beach clean-up event.
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During the outage that began in September 2020, our APM Steam Team had 11 craftspeople conducting the day shift and 10 working the night shift. Our group of experts maneuvered around many schedule changes while remaining cohesive in communication. Lead by APM Superintendent David Baker Jr., the team utilized tools such as Safety Task Analysis cards, pre-job discussions, and refocus meetings to keep safety at the forefront of all tasks, delivering APM's standard of excellence for our customer.
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APM Canada completed an installation for our new customer in July 2020. Their commitment to providing a safe outage with quality excellence at the forefront brought shining recognition from our customer.
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Transcending empowerment across our craftspeople to drive leadership at their work site fosters ideas and strengthens paths to execute a procedure or plan. Gabrial Stevenson and Stephen Shook Jr. utilized their empowerment and delivered expertise during a block outage at Florida Power & Light (FP&L) Okeechobee Clean Energy Center in March 2020.
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I commend our efforts this week to communicate our APM culture pillars. Hopefully each of us have a better understanding of three basic questions:
What is culture?
Why is culture important?
How to apply culture to my role?
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“Every action we take impacts the lives of others around us.” Arthur Carmazzi
APM is proud to raise appreciation for our teammate from Steam Services, Corey Yocum. On a recent project, Yocum was supporting operational checks in preparation for multiple high hazard lifts scheduled for the week and caught an error.
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Our APM senior leadership team spent the past week coming together to discuss our status today and develop strategies for future success. From the good discussions, there were a few key themes I want to share…
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Hopefully you have seen the recent messages from many leaders within our shareholder organization regarding GE’s lean focus. I asked Lisset Lopez, our APM Business Improvement Leader and Lean Champion, to share her reflections with us about Lean and how it applies in APM…
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Education and understanding are two key elements to success in any job. That being said, some things can only be learned effectively in a hands-on setting. To satisfy the need for experience-based learning, our Company’s skilled employees take every opportunity to teach new team members how to effectively and efficiently complete tasks...
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Teamwork, leadership, and professionalism are vital to ensuring quality results. These keys to success are even more crucial when the given work environment is more dangerous than usual. Recently, a team from Fossil North...
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Striving to exceed expectations is a critical part of establishing solid customer relationships. Outages are sometimes a huge challenge the customers. Ensuring customer satisfaction during the outage journey decreases the Customer’s headache, and increases the likelihood that...
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It is so exciting to get a Customer Evaluation that has “Excellent” for every review point of our crew’s performance. That is exactly what was received by the APM Fossil North team at Dominion Power – Mt. Storm Power Station in West Virginia. Stacy Mullis, William Crooks and Jeff Ehrhart were the...
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APM Fossil North team was recently in Indiana working at the Indianapolis Power & Light (IP&L) Harding Station performing various scopes of work. The team received the praises of Frank Gutierrez, GE FrontLine Senior EHS & S Regional Manager. He was very impressed with the crew’s attitudes and their commitment to...
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The dedication of an APM crew is unparalleled. Our APM Fossil North team recently completed a major inspection on the HP/IP (High Pressure/Intermediate Pressure) turbine and a hydrogen cooled generator major inspection at Entergy’s Rhode Island State Energy Center (RISE) in Johnston, Rhode Island. The APM dayshift crew was led by APM Superintendent...
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APM goes above and beyond to deliver excellent results for their customers. While performing a project onboard the USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14), the team offered guidance to the Ships Force personnel. The APM Fossil North Superintendent, Ray Bass, and APM North Rigger, Alex Barghout, as well as the GE Field Engineers, James Cox and Alex Camara, were all recognized by Clarence E. Vick, Chief Engineer from the Department of the Navy, USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14) by writing...
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APM continues to deliver the best in performance. Members from the APM Fossil North team recently completed outstanding performance on a Major Inspection at East Kentucky Power Cooperative’s Spurlock Unit #3. GE Service Manager, Chase G. Bortone applauded the entire site team by commenting, “Such a large scope along with many emergent work items were completed without any safety or quality issues and the work was completed without impacting the overall customer return to service date..."
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