Design/Project Engineering & Execution Phase
- Bid review, selection, specifications.
- Mechanical design appraisals (hardware design and construction).
- Rotordynamics design appraisals (lateral, torsional).
- Motor/generator assembly inspection and shop testing.
- Refurbishment/Upgrade.
- Installation & commissioning and performance examination during warrantee period.
Operational Phase
- Reliability & Mission time (extension studies).
- Performance gap/stretch studies.
- Motor/generator malfunctions diagnosis and cure (bar crack, insulation, vibration, air gap, noise, thermal signature etc.).
- Best practices of motor/generator condition monitoring (mechanical aspects), operation and maintenance.
- Condition-based inspection & maintenance schemes and decisions.
- Pro-active performance appraisals of key parameters during steady state/transient modes.
- On/off-lines condition monitoring schemes.
- Root cause investigation of distressed components, failure and restoration (insulation damage, end ring crack, bar crack, core, shaft, bearings, seals, frame distortion).
- Rotor balancing (high speed and low speed).
- Review/improvement of supervisory instrumentation.
- Life cycle cost & remaining life assessment.
