Unplanned downtime is never good, but it’s even worse when it impacts production capabilities during a busy period. A food processor called Bay City Boiler after its boiler failed. It was in peak production season and they could not afford for the boiler to be down a minute longer than necessary.
Our team quickly diagnosed that a gas seal was cracked and multiple boiler tubes were compromised and leaking.
The challenge: repair the gas seal and replace the 20 membrane tubes that were faulty or potentially faulty. Here’s how we did it within a few days:
- Removed sample tube and quickly got it to our fabrication facility to begin manufacturing 20 custom membrane tubes while other critical repairs were started at the customer site.
- To ensure smooth installation, one of the first newly-fabricated tubes was sent to the job site for a test fit, giving confidence that the ultimate installation would be flawless.
- Our team worked multiple shifts around the clock over four and a half days to get their boiler repaired and back into service a day and a half ahead of schedule.
We’re proud of the skilled work and dedication our team exhibited. Given that we have our own fabrication facility with the tube bending capability found only in a few facilities along the west coast, it would be difficult for other companies to achieve the speed we achieved for this client.
Check out photos of the project by stages.
