We’ve had quite a run on Journal Machining this outage season, much like most outage seasons.  We’re working hard to make sure all of our customers can get their equipment back into good running condition and complete their outages on-time.  As these emergent repairs are discovered please give us a call, we have the equipment and personnel to machine most standard turbine rotor journals and collector rings – as well as provide many other types of on-site repairs.  Here are a couple of photos showing both the equipment set up on the journal, as well as the journal after final machining.

PSG and our affiliated companies, Orbital Energy Services (OES), Turbine Generator Maintenance (TGM), and Airco Power Services, continues to closely monitor the COVID-19 situation to address concerns and issues that may affect the health and safety of our employees, customers, and suppliers. Like other organizations, PSG relies on guidance from the CDC and US Department of State related COVID-19 precautions. Communication with our partners remains a priority as the situation rapidly changes.  As such, PSG has taken action to address its own facilities, as well as those customer facilities at which PSG employees are working.

PSG is currently operating with the following precautions in place to limit exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Our employees, and through their interaction with customers and suppliers, have implemented these actions regardless of location:

• Customer and supplier visits to PSG facilities must be business-critical and approved by the facility manager. As a precaution, body temperature of any person entering a PSG facility, employee or visitor, is checked and must be within CDC guidelines.
• All travel unrelated to execution of business has been eliminated. All air travel must be approved by senior management directly reporting to the CEO. Our field teams are driving to customer job sites as much as possible and will comply with all customer-specific site protocols.
• All employees returning from international travel are self-quarantined for 14 days at home to ensure wellness.
• Where practical, office employees have the option to work from home to promote social distancing.
• Web meetings and teleconferences are encouraged as an alternative to face-to-face meetings, both internally and externally.

PSG’s commitments to safety and service excellence remain our top priorities and our core values, and we will take the necessary steps to ensure the highest standards of both are at the forefront of everything we do.

 

Keith Ravan

Chief Executive Officer

Power Services Group

Kelly Harris has been awarded a custom trophy for excellence in machine design.

In 1976 Kelly enlisted in the Navy where he would start his machining career. In 1975, 4 days after high school, he began 4 years of service. Since then, Kelly has worked in many areas of machining and has learned many lessons that he now teaches all of us here at OES. During his time here with OES he has led designing and innovation on several machines and applications. To mention one example… we had a customer that had a very difficult and precise valve lapping job. Kelly built a tool that traces the valve seat and it proved to shorten the job duration significantly.

Kelly has designed many other pieces of equipment over the years to assist customers in completing custom repairs on their turbine components.

We at OES wish to recognize him for his efforts and innovation. He has been an excellent resource of knowledge that can only be replaced with personal experience and time. Though the trophy is unique in appearance, it is certainly earnest and sincere from all of us who have worked with Kelly over the years.

PSG’s turbine services personnel perform various types of work on steam and gas turbines all over the World.  In the photo below our personnel are coordinating the lift of a 100+ Ton HP Turbine Shell.  There are a lot of small details that go into successfully accomplishing such a lift, and the attention to detail and safety must be paramount when lifting any piece of equipment.  Nice work team!

We had another amazing conference. Here our own Joerg Schoepp, GM of Repair Services for PSG,
is seen presenting an enthralling informative about In Situ Valve Seat Replacement.