With a goal of providing reliable and competitive energy to Asia, one of our customers came to GE to perform rotor life extension services on 9 of its 9F gas turbine rotors. It required a $4 million investment in the GRSS (GE Repair Solutions Singapore), which enabled the service center to perform rotor life extensions on both 7F and 9F gas turbines—and the additional capacity has increased the center’s capability by at least 35%.
The project started as a partnership two years before the RLE work began at the GRSS, with the customer and GE working together to determine what additional inspection tooling and machines the center needed, investing in and installing the new equipment, and training the machine vendors.