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Since 1978 Field System Machining (FSM) has provided field machining solutions to steel mills, power plants, ships, factories of all types, aluminum mills, refineries, forges, chemical plants and construction sites on four continents. We provide on-site, in-situ and in-place machinery repair.
In addition to working directly for producers we also work for OEM, outage, maintenance, general contracting, turbine, and engineering firms. Furthermore, we maintain one of the world’s largest portable machine tool inventories. FSM’s results are precise, efficient and cost-effective.
We provide a range of field machinery repair services for power plants, including the following.
At FSM, keeping your steam path maintenance costs to an absolute minimum without a sacrifice in precision quality or system performance is our first and only priority. That is why we offer the industry’s most comprehensive array of expert, specialized steam path services, including:
Our journal / shaft machining for power plants includes tooling, grinding and polishing of journals, collector rings, thrust faces, hydrogen seals (applicable to turbines, generators, motors, pumps, drive shafts and propulsion shafts); welding and reconditioning of damaged or worn shafts; reverse engineering of old shafts; and manufacturing of new replacement shafts and components.
We provide line-bore machining of all types for power plants. Equipment we can line-bore machine includes:
Our over-boring capabilities range from 2in upwards, and bore capabilities are from 2¾in upwards. Standard bottle-bore capabilities are up to 14in, but we can provide larger on request.
We offer a wide range of field machining services for power plant mills and components, including gearboxes, crane pin bores, cylinder bores, and coupling bolt holes of all kinds.
FSM provides a variety of milling services for power plants, including:
Our honing, drilling and welding services for power plants include drilling/honing in all positions; tapping and internal/external threading; counter-boring and spot facing; and honing capabilities from 2¾in up to 12in, for items up to 40ft long.
We provide flange-face machining for power plants, including for the following equipment: turbine casings, splitline repairs, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and process reactors; coupling flanges (elliptical, oval and circular configuration can be accommodated); and hand holes, manway flanges, access doors and valves of all types and sizes.
FSM provides high-quality, detailed and comprehensive field and shop repairs for combustion turbines and turbine components, including:
Deep hole boring, custom boring machines: Deep hole boring, deep hole drilling, deep hole on site machining, deep hole portable drilling and deep hole portable boring are Field System Machining specialties.
7 November 2012Field System Machining has provided turbine and generator journal machining to the power generation industry since 1978.
22 May 2012Machining on a train bridge mid-construction is demanding. Field System Machining (FSM) has completed several train bridge field machining projects in the past few years, and has recently taken on the tougher challenge of machining on train bridges in active service.
22 May 2012A Plains State forge contacted Field System Machining recently regarding their receiver pockets, which were badly worn and in need of repair.
22 May 20122011 was a banner year for Field System Machining - one of our busiest ever - and while we did our best to please everyone, we were forced to turn away new and old customers alike because we received so many work scopes too close to the outage start date.
25 January 2012Field System Machining has recently purchased from PDS-Bartech a PCE-630 6-zone power control, automatic programmable controls and chart recorder.
25 January 2012During a recent project at a gold mine FSM's on-site machining crew worked six days per week, six weeks in a row, to machine a 125 RMS phonograph finish into twenty-plus autoclave covers and flanges of various sizes.
25 January 2012Field System Machining is presently machining autoclave covers at the Puerto Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic.
23 November 2011Weld repairing six descale box table bearing pockets in 96 total elapsed hours takes creativity, planning and flawless execution.
23 November 2011Industrial fans play a major role in building climate control. Without being able to move chilled air through large commercial buildings or being able to move hot air out of the building, unbearable climate situations occur. Recently we were called upon by a long-time HVAC contractor customer to
17 August 2011Field System Machining (FSM) was recently asked to perform cold cast iron welding at a major American hydroelectric plant equipment repair facility. Since 1978, we've pioneered or refined numerous innovative welding techniques. For example, our revolutionary FSM 01-625 cold cast iron w
17 August 2011Three companies were asked to bid the field machining repairs to New Page Biron Mill's 78 Super Calendar. Two companies declined to bid - Field System Machining bid the work and completed the project in May 2011, completing one half-shift early of our quoted nine shift completion time.
1 June 2011How old are our nation's bridges? The rail crossing on the Illinois River at Morris, Illinois, was first erected in 1888. The 1888 bridge was replaced by a lift bridge in the 1930s. The rail line is abandoned just below the Illinois River, and trains that cross the bridge today serve only the hea
1 June 2011Field System Machining recently completed bolt hole repairs to two steam turbine LP hood crossover flanges, which had damaged threaded blind holes. The blind threaded bolt holes were over-bored, threaded inserts were manufactured in our shop, the over-bored bolt holes were tapped, and the inserts
1 June 2011Field System Machining recently completed on-site portable field machining on a pressure vessel at the Kennametal Engineered Products Group in Rogers, Arkansas. The scope grew as the project continued because the pitting in the pressure vessel was deeper than the client originally believed. About
2 May 2011This past week FSM completed three weeks of turbine steam path outage welding and machining repairs in Boron, California, at the world's largest solar electric power plant — Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS). Field System Machining, working for Mitsubishi Power Systems, brought
9 March 2011Field System Machining's portable lathe compound design has once again been deemed to offer the best value and performance by ReGENCo Toshiba. "We're delighted to continue our status as a trusted portable machine tool manufacturer to such a prominent turbine OEM as Toshiba ReGENco," sa
20 February 2011Field System Machining, the field machining, turbine overhaul and mill machinery repair pioneer, welcomes Mr Barry Samulcek as Great Plains area field manager. Mr Samulcek's territory includes Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Mr Samulcek's responsibilities include turbine overhaul, steam pa
15 February 2011Field System Machining, pioneer of the field machining, turbine overhaul and mill-machinery-repair world, welcomes R.H. Borden and Company as its area representatives for Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho. Field System Machining's services include turbine overhaul, steam path repair and field ma
30 June 2010Field System Machining, the field machining, turbine overhaul and mill machinery repair pioneer, welcomes Walt Kennedy as Ohio Valley region area field manager. Kennedy's territory includes Indiana, Kentucky, and southern Ohio. Coverage includes Evansville, Indianapolis, Muncie, Marion, Fort Wayn
23 June 2010Field System Machining, the field machining, turbine overhaul and mill machinery repair pioneer, welcomes C & D Solutions' Robert "Bob" Cosbey and Don Dolph. The pair's territory includes Michigan and northern Ohio. Their responsibilities include turbine overhaul, steam path repai
22 June 2010Field System Machining, the field machining, turbine overhaul, and mill machinery repair pioneer, welcomes Augusta Energy Solutions (AES) to handle Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. AES's responsibilities include turbine overhaul, steam path repair and field machining project site inspect
22 June 2010Field System Machining (FSM), the field machining, turbine overhaul and mill machinery repair pioneer, welcomes Don Aarts as factory representative and manager of the northwest territory. Aarts will be calling on customers located within the states of Washington and Oregon. His responsibilities i
14 June 2010An expanding array of machining options, including stationary journal machining (SJM), now make it possible to perform turbine repairs on-site. The big advantages are reduced cost and shortened outages. SJM evolved from technology first developed in Europe in the early 1950s, thoug
15 April 2010Field System Machining, the field machining, turbine overhaul and mill machinery repair pioneer, welcomes Jim Rish as southern region area field manager. Rish's territory includes Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Florida Panhandle. His responsibilities include turbine overhaul
15 April 2010To increase its turbine rebuilding shop capacities, the venerable South Elgin, Illinois, US field machining pioneer Field System Machining (FSM) recently added a new 5,000ft² turbine bay addition to its previous 17,000ft² facility. This new turbine bay allows FSM to simultaneously rep
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