power generation

LAI provides turnkey manufacturing and overhaul services for many components and subassemblies found in both gas and steam turbine units for power generation plants around the world. LAI is an approved supplier to Dresser, multiple divisions of GE, Hamilton Sundstrand, Honeywell Engines, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Power Systems, Rolls Royce Engines, Pratt & Whitney and Siemens. LAI is sole supplier on critical components for multiple types of gas and steam turbines.

LAI manufactures components for wind, solar and nuclear power, maritime gas turbine engines, steam turbines, hydrogen fuel cells, auxiliary power units, as well as air-based turbine engines. LAI provides manufacturing services for precision turbine components, including hot-gas components, blades, buckets, impingement plates, inserts, nozzles, partitions, seals, shrouds, spacer bands and vanes. LAI's proprietary processes for hole drilling maximize flow characteristics and extend the life cycle of parts.

Precision Manufactured Power Generation Components and Subassemblies

 

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GE-90 Engine

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Turbine engine

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Five-axis laser machining of turbine section.

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Five-axis machined and waterjet-drilled turbine nozzle.

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CNC machined ring

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CNC machined partition

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CNC machined grooved assembly

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Fir tree component processed by EDM

   Land- and air-based turbine components
  • Actuators
  • Adaptor rings
  • Blades
  • Buckets
  • Can and annular combustors
  • Casings
  • Combustion liners and assemblies
  • Combustion housings 
  • End caps
  • Engine brackets
  • Engine noise-abatement liners
  • Engine tail cones and pipes
  • Exhaust nozzle components
  • Flow sleeves
  • High- and low-pressure stator rings and assemblies
  • Hot-gas components
  • Impingement plates
  • Impingement sleeves
  • Inserts
  • Nozzles
  • Partitions
  • Radial diffusers
  • Rear support covers
  • Seals
  • Sectors
  • Shrouds
  • Spacer bands
  • Stiffeners
  • Support nozzles
  • Transition bodies and assemblies
  • Transition ducts and rings
  • Turbine casings
  • Vanes
   Nuclear power generation components
  • Casks
  • Structural components 
   Solar power generation components
  • Structural components
  • Thin-film eletronic components, precision cutting
   Wind power generation components
  • Bearing cages
  • Brackets
  • Clamps
  • Structural components
  • Thin-film eletronic components

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CNC machined dome

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CNC machined shroud

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CNC machined punch

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CNC machined ring

 

Strategic Programs


   Land-based gas turbine
  • Nozzle component
  • Strategic solution: Pioneer development of processing shaped cooling holes, reducing cycle time and allowing greater design freedom.
  • Lean manufacturing initiative reduces nonconformity occurrences and cycle times of key processes in production by 58 percent
  • Utilization of LAI's Advanced Hole-Drilling Production Center
  • Designed custom waterjet machining stations for drilling shaped holes, including patented and trade secret innovations
  • Developed a process to re-qualify datums on non-conform
     Land-based gas turbine
  • Nozzle component, first-stage
  • Strategic solution:Leverage advanced Drill-to-Flow TechnologyTM, Six Sigma processes and advanced inspections methods to compress production cycles and facilitate rapid product launch
     Land-based steam turbine
  • Steam spacer bands, partitions, buckets, locking inserts, inner turbine cases
  • Strategic solution: Manufacturing process development includes process design, machining, welding, coating.
  • Objective to develop cost-effective processes that match customer cost goals
   Wind power turbines
  • Bearing cages
  • Strategic solution: Achieve technological innovations, including functional inspection techniques, five-axis programming from solid models, large rotary upgrades, special export packaging requirements and Just-In-Time delivery requirements
  • Development partner with customer
  • Advanced programming and tooling

Quantifiable Values

  • Reduce cycle times of key manufacturing processes by 58 percent
  • Advanced manufacturing processes enable OEMs to focus on introducing new products that provide clean and efficient energy at an affordable cost
  • Engage extensive experience with manufacturing in multiple engine families
  • Integrate capabilities into customers’ design process
  • Leverage ability to produce complex engineered parts designed for manufacturability
  • Utilize expertise as world leader in precision shaped hole drilling with advanced abrasive waterjet, laser and EDM drilling technologies