Following last year’s implementation of a new lean approach to outages, called “Live Outage,” GE (NYSE: GE) and FieldCore, GE’s owned field services company, today announced this innovative outage workflow is available for GE 9F gas turbines in Europe and in the Middle East. Initially launched in the United States, at over eighty power plants powered by GE 7F gas turbines, it helped complete outages safely with a substantial reduction in cycle time.
At FieldCore we embrace a Lean mindset. By doing so, this allows our employees to use their time wisely by effectively speeding up processes and eliminating “waste”. It’s a methodology that approaches and handles work in a lean way which means that the value to the customer is given the biggest focus.
A few weeks ago, I was lucky to be part of FieldCore’s first ever Tooling Shingi Lean event at the Atlanta Tool Center. Five action-oriented teams joined multiple Kaizen events to develop lean solutions for specific challenges faced in the Tool Center and within our overall FieldCore organization.