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

We recently completed a Major Inspection on an industrial steam turbine which required a de-stack of the rotor, the manufacture of a new rotor shaft, and re-stacking of components.  We also changed multiple rows of blades, and balanced the rotor upon completion.  One plant employee commented: “I have been here for 20 years and 3 complete overhauls of this unit.  This was by far the best from a standpoint of quality and workmanship”.  This project was a great team effort from start to finish that resulted in another very satisfied customer.

Power Services Group will be exhibiting at the NAES Operations & Maintenance Conference in Nashville, Tennessee the week of February 24th, 2020.  We perform steam and gas turbine inspection and repairs for various NAES facilities, and are looking forward to sharing our experiences with the conference attendees.  We will be in the exhibit hall the evening of February 25th at table 19.  If you’re in attendance please stop by.  Travel safe everybody!

It’s mid-February and our Steam Path Repair facility is filling up.  It’s great to see so much work going on this spring, looks like it will be a very busy outage season.  Please contact us today if you have any projects coming up that we can help with.  Below is a photo of diaphragms that just arrived – looking forward to making the necessary repairs and getting them back to the customer on budget and on schedule!