IPS’s experienced team of multi-skilled engineers carried out an overhaul of two diesel generators.

The challenge

IPS was awarded a three-year contract from Prosafe which included the planned maintenance and overhaul of two diesel generators from Safe Bristolia during docking. The job would require engineers from IPS’s site services team to travel to Norway to inspect, disconnect and arrange for the generators to be transported to IPS where the full overhaul would be undertaken.

The solution

IPS’s electro mechanical services division have extensive experience in overhauls of this type and proposed a plan to project manage all aspects of the job including logistics. Two site service engineers travelled to the docked vessel in Norway where they electrically and mechanically disconnected both failed generators and arranged for the generators to be flighted off the vessel to be transported to the workshop at IPS. Once removed, it was evident that there was substantial shimming under the second generator. The engineers decided that the best scenario would be the supply a couple of complete shims various in thickness and assess this in more depth during the refit.

Upon arrival at the workshop, a full overhaul of each of the generator was carried out. After the final checks and testing were undertaken, the overhauled generators were then packaged and shipped back to the vessel in Norway where IPS’s engineers were on site to recommission and reinstall them. Both generators were inserted into their respective couplings and connected mechanically via flanged spigot on the belle housing.