Power plant owners and operators have entrusted their turnkey turbine-generator overhauls to MD&A for close to four decades.

Our team of seasoned professionals has a broad range of experiences whose skill sets cover both common and unique makes and models of turbo machinery from around the world.

Our reputation for providing objective advice, effective project management, and high-quality repairs has enabled MD&A to become one of the most recognized and trusted names in the power generation industry.

We are your full-service, OEM-alternative gas turbine service provider!

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Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis provides power generators around the globe with a full-service, OEM-alternative for your gas turbine. We provide the expertise necessary to address both planned and forced outages of many types of gas turbines.

Our routine maintenance capabilities range from a full Major Inspection to a Combustion or Hot Gas Path Inspection. We perform specialized services, such as performance testing and analysis, aligning gas turbine internal components, replacement, and alignment of compressor discharge casings and turbine shells.

MD&A’s Gas Turbine Rotor Repair Division in St. Louis, Missouri has the expertise for superior repair solutions. Our fully equipped one-stop shop has validated tooling for unstack, restack, inspection, balance, and repair for gas turbine rotors. MD&A has developed complete engineering models and inspection procedures to support various plant strategies for Rotor Life Assessment and Life Extension.

MD&A’s San Antonio Service center is an industry leader in gas turbine component repair. Our team has extensive knowledge on gas turbine hot gas path and combustion components. MD&A’s advanced coating system, on components, can provide oxidation and corrosion protection, and aid in temperature reduction.

We test and repair gas turbine fuel nozzles. MD&A supports multiple frame’s Standard Combustion, Multi-Nozzle Quiet Combustor & Dry Low NOx System 1.0, 2.0, and 2.6 systems.

Our experts offer refurbishment of gas turbine bearings. We stock replacement bearings to satisfy short-cycle turnaround requirements.

MD&A Generator specialists perform turnkey stator and field rewinds, and repairs of any type or OEM. We conduct full-scope electrical testing, visual inspections, and specialty tests, per customer requirements.

On staff, we have experts who specialize in Engineering Parts & Retrofits for Control and Excitation Systems. Our HMI simplifies power plant control and monitoring.

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• Knowing your assets and operating procedures: Understanding what assets are owned and their current condition is the first building block to creating a maintenance plan. Thorough understanding of your organization’s procedures will identify gaps that can expose you to unplanned events.
• Establishing standard maintenance procedures: Consistent and reliable maintenance should be independent of the person performing the maintenance. Documentation will help get everyone in the organization on the same page with respect to each asset’s maintenance needs.
• Creating reliability and maintenance policies: Maintenance for maintenance sake is not the goal. Your organization has business objectives that need to be communicated through policies.  This helps everyone know how their contribution helps move the business towards achieving those objectives.
• Using automated maintenance management software: Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) can be used to more efficiently and consistently manage the time and resources required to maintain your equipment.
• Performing required maintenance on-time: The time frames defined for completing a maintenance task should not be too broad, otherwise intervals may be too long or too short depending on when a technician completes the task.

As a full-service provider, MD&A experts can help guide turbine-generator owners in planning and executing a gas turbine-generator outage, therefore, freeing up plant personnel.

Our maintenance advanced planning services optimizes outage effectiveness and minimizes outage durations and frequencies. It also helps identify and mitigate unforeseen issues occurring during an outage while maintaining a planned outage schedule.

This maintenance strategy includes a non-biased, third-party evaluation of historic and planned outage activities, while accounting for current operating needs and unit-specific maintenance issues.

Our network of highly experienced project managers and technical directors review unit performance and reliability, and then use it as a basis for outage planning. Likewise, operating conditions, historical data, fleet data, and OEM recommendations are compiled in report form and used to develop an outage planning document.

Our expertise and knowledge can provide turbine-generator owners with a competitive maintenance strategy.

Our specialized services range from Combustion, Hot Gas Path and Major Inspections, as well as, Compressor & Turbine Rotor Repairs to Plant Performance Testing and Analysis.

Our project managers and technical directors are seasoned professionals with a broad range of experiences whose skill sets cover both common and unique makes and models of turbo machinery from around the world.

We can also perform generator inspection and repairs, along with providing innovative solutions to numerous aging fleet issues; for example, 7FH2 generator spring migration repair and dusting on 7FH2 & 324 stator end winding systems.

Our Parts Division is a premier worldwide supplier of replacement new and refurbished gas capital and consumable parts. Our San Antonio Service center offers gas turbine component repairs and upgraded parts. Our facility and team have leading edge equipment and repair techniques with proven expertise on multiple frame gas turbine hot gas path and combustion components.

Lastly, our Turbine and Generator Controls Division provides expertise to service or retrofit turbine control and generator excitation systems and their auxiliaries.

Find out today why so many power generators use MD&A to maximize operational effectiveness. Call our MD&A Gas Turbine Services today at +1 (518) 399-3616 or use our Contact form.

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