GE Vernova delivers advanced outage planning and execution services for all your steam power plant equipment, including turbines, generators, controls, and associated turbine island equipment.
Outage planning
Steam plant outage planning and execution
Whether you’re scheduling planned maintenance, rejuvenating your equipment or dealing with an unplanned shutdown, there’s nothing more critical to your service strategy than outage planning. Steam Power Services can support your steam turbine, generator, controls and associated turbine island equipment needs, in coordination with you as energy transition partners.
Amplifying our services capabilities through continuous investments
~400 outages executed annually
Strong focus on safety, quality, and on-time delivery
Software solutions with data-driven insights to anticipate outage needs and reduce emergent work
Interactive flipbook
Safety is our top priority
We’ve made a number of safety-related improvements in our outage processes to reduce safety incidents and improve the quality of all projects. Take a look to learn more about steps we’ve taken to make your next outage as safe and efficient as possible.
Processes engineered for success
Time-saving strategies
Our on-site and remote outage capabilities enable us to execute with equal parts speed and quality.
On-site capabilities
Our teams can transport mobile tools for various on-site machining activities. These capabilities can significantly reduce portions of your outage cycle by carving out shipping time to off-site service centers.
We can gather insights through various on-site inspections, often without shutting down your operations. For example, a Turbine Evaluation and Analysis and Maintenance Scheduling (TEAMS) inspection can assess your steam turbine unit’s condition and make service recommendations for your upcoming outage.
Service network
With a global repair network, our teams stand ready to support more complex outage needs from custom welding and grinding repairs to more extensive rebuilds and overhauls on all turbine island equipment. Through our planning process, work performed off-site can be slotted in early to help ensure quick execution including transport.
Our network also includes dedicated facilities for individual components and technologies, all operated by experts in that specific area. A hydraulic center, for example, focuses on hydraulic components like turning gears and oil pumps.
GE Vernova’s dedicated response team prioritizes speed during network disturbances like forced shutdowns, providing on-site support through team mobilization and quick-turn proposals. A dispersed network of tooling centers helps our teams to quickly mobilize the equipment they need without delay.
Next-level outage preparation/execution
A comprehensive software offering
Outage Assistant, our wing-to-wing outage planning and execution tool, connects all relevant information, actions items and checklists into one environment to help ensure on-time, on budget execution.
Everything is housed in one system, including key customer site history, equipment-related TILs (Technical Information Letters), tooling and safety checklists, cost tracking, and customer action alerts.
This holistic approach keeps our project teams connected, bubbling up process dependencies, potential risks and decision-making to coordinate with you.
Sequencing
Project workflow—optimized
With outage sequencing, we’ve taken learnings from our highest performing outages and streamlined the processes of several tasks, improving the overall workflow.
After re-sequencing, we identified task-specific challenges to further refine our processes, resulting in time-saving standardization and shortening outage duration.
Team assessments
Maintain project momentum
The technology and tools we bring to our outage suite are only as good as the team that manages your project. That’s why we conduct ongoing project team assessments to make sure the right combination of individuals—and competencies—are brought together to deliver your outage with quality, speed and predictability.
Training offerings
A continuous learning model
A core part of our GE Vernova culture is believing learning never stops. Our installed base- thousands of assets strong- spans OEM and legacy brand equipment with a range of custom manufacturing characteristics. Servicing those fleets requires expertise and on-going training for our field service experts.
We continue expanding our field training program with new topics delivering a well-rounded curriculum. Our teams are encouraged to continue growing their knowledge base with broader topics such as:
- Business operations
- Project management
- Communication essentials
- Managing through adversity
- Long-term relationship building
End-to-end efficiency
Stay connected across all activities
Our field service teams have access to a suite of resources supporting project execution, helping ensure on-time, on-budget performance.
- Toolbox app: An on-site e-tool for common field service calculations including coupling alignment, lifting, and bolt torquing. This app drives considerable time efficiency while maintaining high standards of quality.
- Innovation portal: On-the-job learnings can be lost without a mechanism to capture them. Field service teams submit ideas, collaborate, and share best practices through this online channel, cross-pollinating new tooling techniques, "ah-ha" moments and problem-solving nuggets of OEM knowledge. New technologies born from this resource are engineered, industrialized, and distributed to our field service teams around the globe.
- Outage playbook: This one-stop shop aggregates all outage project tools, processes and recommended approaches including: shift optimization guidance, sequence planning, and on-site team communication. Proven methods are shared to ensure all team members are equipped for success.
Daily outage reports (DOR)
Full visibility from GE Vernova
A daily project report on your outage provides transparency, keeps our teams on the same page, and alerts us to potential hurdles. Other DOR benefits include:
- Visibility enabling you to allocate resources more effectively and understand the impacts of outage activities on the rest of your operation.
- The ability for you to assess our performance, track our progress against commitments, and monitor project scope.
Remote outage support
Approaching your outage on-site and behind the scenes
Our on-site field service teams work simultaneously with our remote support teams during outage execution to help maintain momentum. Together, these teams accelerate the following processes:
- Technical site support
- Inspection & testing plans
- Field procedures & instructions
- Parts/drawing identification
- Pre-outage operational assessments
This remote support frees up our on-site teams to stay focused on the tasks at hand, and smoothly transition from activity to activity without having to pause and validate what comes next, particularly in scenarios when task or schedule changes are in play.
Steam plant outage schedule
Explore your maintenance scenarios and planning to identify the important milestones in advance of your next outage. Your goals are our goals, so no matter what state of planning you’re in, or what you’re hoping to achieve with your specific outage, we’re ready to serve as your outage partner. Let's plan your next outage together
- 18 months
- 6 months +
- 3 months
- 1 month
- Pre-start-up review
- Close out
- Unplanned power plant outage
As you start thinking about your next outage, our team can begin coordinating with you to define your needed scope, timing and budget. Based on those terms, we can then craft a commercial proposal outlining your outage deliverables from the planning stage through project-closing activities.
Well in advance, before your planned steam outage, our teams will work closely with you to make sure everything needed for a successful project is in place.
Scope:
We will work with you and your specialists to develop a detailed scope of work with clear roles and responsibilities. From standard parts and repair work to steam turbines, generators and controls, all necessary equipment and expected maintenance work will be defined as a team.
EHS:
We will review, support and update site-specific EHS requirements for our teams and the plant outage events to ensure our first priority for a successful safe execution.
Optimization:
With experience in advanced outage management, we have the knowledge, best practices and expert engineering and field team needed to help you start planning for an effective outage that addresses the specific objectives. For example, adapting the services scope reflecting the plant operational characteristics, optimizing the scheduling to fit with the required outage window and other site activities, preparing for potential emergent findings during the planned maintenance and making sure we have your back to return the plant to commercial operation as planned,
Parts & tooling kits:
When it comes to both consumable parts and more significant replacement parts with longer lead items, planning is key. Through our network of local repair workshops and supplier network, we can engineer and order exactly the parts you need—for a steam outage execution that’s performed well, and on time. Based on your inventory and your outage scope, we will start defining what equipment and special tools will be needed for a proper and timely outage execution. From cranes to rotor stands, the tooling kit will be customized to your outage and site.
Scope:
We will continue to fine-tune your steam power plant outage planning through regular touchpoints and transparent communication. Together, we will establish precise mobilization and demobilization plans, including customer training logistics and requirements, site setup, internal and external resource arrival, site turnover, equipment, and tools.
EHS:
Key aspects of EHS include site laydown, lockout & tagout, walk down, delimited storage and quarantine zones. We will discuss and reach an agreement on all these important aspects with you to help ensure a safe plant outage execution.
Optimization:
We will consider the planned outage scope as well as potential unplanned activities to define necessary mitigation steps that will help keep your outage on track. Our engineering team will prepare all the necessary technical documentation for our field teams, including field procedures, test protocols and field service instructions.
Parts & tooling kits:
This is the time to perform an on-site parts inspection to ensure you have the rights parts at the highest quality. We will work with you to plan the staging and delivery of parts and consumables to meet the scope of your steam outage execution.
Scope:
We will work together to finalize our communication plan and regular checkpoints, including issue escalation, to remain transparent and allow for quick decision-making on the turbine deck during your steam plant outage.
EHS:
The Steam Power team will complete our pre-planning checklist with you and our regional EHS manager to make sure we have taken all aspects of safe outage inspections into consideration. Then we will conduct briefings for the EHS manager, employees and contractors.
Optimization:
With our engineering team, we will customize the inspection and test plans and review all technical documentation to ensure it fits your site, your outage, and your requirements.
We will perform all final checks, including parts and tooling kits delivery, to make sure your steam outage starts on time and is appropriately conducted.
1 month after outage:
Our team will provide a thorough, detailed post-outage report, including EHS, delivery time, productivity savings and lessons learned. This report will be shared with you along with a customer experience survey that will help us improve our processes and procedures.
2 months after outage:
We will organize a post-outage review meeting with you and your team to address any open items, hear about your experience and feed back through the entire organization to continuously improve our performances and processes.
Unfortunately, not all steam turbine outages can be planned. If you identify a need for emergency parts, had an unexpected issue emerge during an outage or are facing a forced outage, we’re here to help.
Not only can we support last-minute steam outage requests, we can help you with additional parts from our refurbished part pool. Our field services team is backed by a global network of technical, repair and analytics experts that can respond quickly to unplanned events.
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See our steam power outage services in action
Benefits of advanced steam outage planning
Our team continues to build on our parts and repairs capabilities—in collaboration with our suppliers—to deliver for our customers fast, without sacrificing quality.
Repair solutions for aging steam plant operations
For steam plant operators in their later life cycles, squeezing the most life from their existing equipment in a cost-effective way is increasingly important. Our service team has developed repair solutions specifically for aging power assets… and that don’t break the bank.
Parts and repairs for steam power plants
Our team continues to build on our parts and repairs capabilities—in collaboration with our suppliers—to deliver for our customers fast, without sacrificing quality.
Other GE Vernova outage services
Comprehensive outage solutions to keep your operations running smoothly
With GE Vernova’s extensive outage capabilities across gas, steam, and nuclear power, you can count on expert support to keep your assets running efficiently. From proactive maintenance and rapid response services to full-scope outage planning, our solutions help reduce downtime, enhance reliability, and optimize performance for your power generation needs.
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