Machine Maintenance & Repair

Effective industrial maintenance services keep the cogs turning

As experienced industrial maintenance services specialists, we understand the pressure you’re under to keep production up and running. That’s why we use a four-pronged approach to maintenance that monitors your equipment through its complete lifecycle.

• Predictive maintenance anticipates problems before they occur.

• Preventive maintenance seeks to maintain optimal performance.

• Corrective maintenance rapidly returns equipment to service.

• Emergency maintenance responds to problems that happen unexpectedly.

• Our proven process and in-house resources are available 24/7 so you’re always covered for every contingency.

• What do you understand by machine repair and maintenance?

Machine maintenance is the means by which mechanical assets in a facility are kept in working order. Machinery maintenance involves regular servicing of equipment, routine checks, repair work, and replacement of worn or non-functional parts.

Integrated Maintenance Services

Optimal plant performance is often the direct result of a comprehensive maintenance program. FORUS’s turn-key industrial maintenance services focus on preserving your plant components at peak performance so you can enjoy higher productivity, maximum cost effectiveness and lower costs of ownership.

• Mechanical Inspections

• Preventative Maintenance

• Plant Maintenance Assistance

• Predictive, Preventative and Corrective Maintenance

• Equipment Maintenance

Forus, provides a comprehensive maintenance service portfolio across most industry sectors. Our services can be provided on a standalone basis or as integrated solutions.

Maintenance is an essential part of all phases of the asset life cycle. We analyze each client’s maintenance approach at a strategic level to optimize the maintenance program for the type of production.

On-site: making use of multi-skilled craft personnel, Forus performs world-class maintenance, helping minimize risks and lower overall maintenance costs without compromising on safety.

Off-site: in select dense industrial zones, Forus provides workshops to cost efficiently plan and execute maintenance-related work for surrounding clients.

Fabric Maintenance: Assuring Integrity and Extending Asset Life

Maintaining the fabric and infrastructure of a production asset is central to extending its operating life.

Forus, provides solutions to meet clients’ fabric maintenance and asset integrity needs, with a focus on safety, quality and cost-effective service delivery. Multi-disciplined rope access teams are trained in a range of services, including painting, blasting and inspection. These teams maximize project efficiency while reducing logistical pressures on transport and bed space.

Working with clients, our contract teams identify immediate, medium to long-term integrity requirements and develop tailored solutions to suit the specific situations. Examples are essential work in a shutdown and immediate requirements for corrosion-under-insulation projects.

We provide fast, effective support and a single point of contact for all fabric maintenance services to reduce interfaces and administrative burden.

Fabric maintenance service offerings include:

• Coatings and surface preparation

• Insulation

• Passive fire protection

• Special access systems

• Construction support

• Staffing

Mechanical and Piping Services for Efficiency and Reliability Throughout the Asset Life Cycle

Forus, offers mechanical and piping services to achieve high levels of asset integrity and reliability.

Our teams work closely with clients to provide efficient, reliable and total life-cycle support of crucial flow and manufacturing equipment. With the right integrated solutions, we deliver economies of scale and innovative approaches that minimize process interruptions and downtime.

We add value to client projects with:

• Complete life-cycle services, including engineering, execution, service and maintenance, overhaul and replacement

• Round-the-clock, 24/7 service

• Services span the complete technical spectrum, from generic to highly specialized mechanical work

• Supplier-independent

• Integrated approach on turnkey projects, with a single point of contact

Mechanical and piping services include:

• Composite repair

• Heat treatment equipment

• Heat treatment services

• Piping services

• Pump services

• Machining and bolting services (including subsea)

• Mechanical construction

• Mechanical maintenance

• Valve services

Inspection and Integrity Solutions to Manage Risk and Deliver Asset Integrity Assurance

Forus, offers inspection and integrity services to reduce failures, increase asset life and maintain the hydrocarbon envelope of installations.

Our integrated approach, Assess, Inspect and Repair (AIR), manages asset risk and integrity throughout the life cycle, from original plant design to decommissioning.

We plan and execute a wide range of asset integrity activities, leveraging our knowledge in risk-based assessments. From topside to subsea, we implement best practices developed from extensive experience in the onshore and offshore sectors.

Our comprehensive inspection and integrity solutions include:

• Inspection solutions

• Non-destructive testing

• Monitoring solutions

• Asbestos management

• Cathodic protection solutions

• Integrity engineering management

• Quality services

• Sand management services

• Specialist cleaning

Plant Turnarounds and Outages – Minimize Downtime, Maximize Performance

Turnaround processes are complex, requiring multi-disciplinary skills. Forus, plan, perform or support, shutdowns and outages annually, serving clients in power generation, oil refining, chemical processing and other industries.

Our in-depth expertise in turnaround management minimizes shutdown time and costs without compromising on safety and quality while often improving asset performance by concurrently executing modification scopes.

Whether for emergency repairs, capital project tie-ins or major shutdowns, our turnaround teams follow a disciplined, multi-phase approach to plan, schedule, staff and execute turnarounds of all sizes.

We work closely with clients to develop a progressive series of implementation plans, beginning well in advance of the turnaround start date and concluding with post-project performance reviews.

We optimize turnaround and modification projects to ensure timely delivery within budget and leverage installation outages for better asset-related business planning.

Our mechanical and electrical turnaround services include:

• Shutdown scope definition

• Preparation & planning

• Detail estimating

• Complete execution, including staffing and equipment

• Close-out

Delivering Business-Critical Equipment Manufacturing and Repair

In today’s super competitive business environment, you simply can’t afford long periods of downtime. Turn-key machine repairs from inspection to operation, working in tandem with in-house skilled trades, mean faster return to service.

• Mechanical Press Rebuilds

• Hydraulic Press Rebuilds

• Complete Machining, Manufacturing and Reverse Engineering of Components

• Portable Machining Services Including Milling, Line Boring, Bore Welding, Keyway Cutting and Lamina Drilling/Boring Capabilities

Forus, have manufacturing and installing business-critical equipment and materials, ranging from pumps, pipes, gearboxes and turbine blades, to deaerators, boilers & burners and complete power-generating installations.

We combine high-quality product engineering with independent provision of in-depth asset integrity management. Forus can supply original equipment manufacturer (OEM) equipment, provide custom-built machines based on the clients’ specific requirements and replace obsolete machines with new and improved designs.

Working closely with our clients from the beginning, our creative and solution-driven engineers are able to better understand their requirements to develop a customized solution.

Quality levels are discussed and agreed upon at the onset. As a trusted partner with clear processes, we are able to deliver on our promises.

Our manufacturing and repair services include:

• Deaerators

• Gearboxes

• Gas/steam turbine blades & components

• Pumps

• Valves

• Pipes

• Boilers

• Incinerators

• Burners & retrofits

• Complete power-generation installations

• Heat treatment equipment