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GE Energy’s Contractual Services group maintains and operates power plants and plant performance through Contractual Service Agreements (CSAs) for large frame gas turbines. This involves, among other components, assessing the equipment’s condition through borescope inspections.
Recently, the team increased the frequency and thoroughness of borescope inspections to enhance their contractual performance for customers. The increased rigor of examinations made it impossible, however, to maintain rigor around their data collection process. Data was being collected manually, through flash images, which were then documented in a written report.
The GE Energy team needed a digital solution, and turned to GE Inspection Technologies’ Rhythm Software.
“Using Rhythm, we increased both our inspection rigor and our customer response time,” said Ram Kothapalli, NPI Productivity Leader for GE Energy’s Contractual Services team. “Now, we can deliver data to our customers in 10 minutes, whereas it used to take up to 40 hours. This is a huge advantage.”
Rhythm enables an increase in inspection productivity and quality. Its advanced data sharing capabilities allow significant improvements in productivity and enable faster identification of quality problems, leading to reduced production defects and better in-service asset management. Rhythm’s archiving system provides one central database for all inspection history to be housed, accessed and analyzed from remote workstations.
“My experience working with GE Inspection Technologies was extremely positive,” said Ram. “This was the best coordinated project I have ever worked on and the support and response time from the team was outstanding. Even though we had other options, we did 100% the right thing working with GE Inspection Technologies.” |
