power generation

LAI provides turnkey manufacturing and overhaul services for many components and sub-assemblies 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, Rolls Royce Engines, Power Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens and Turbo Combustor Technology. LAI manufactures components for wind, solar and nuclear power, and auxiliary power units, as well as air-based turbine engines. LAI provides manufacturing services for precision turbine components, including blades, buckets, impingement plates, inserts, nozzles, partitions, seals, shrouds, spacer bands and vanes.

example of programs

components

strategic solutions

Land-based gas turbine

Nozzle component

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 %

Land-based gas turbine

Steam spacer bands, partitions, buckets, locking inserts, inner turbine case

Manufacturing process development includes process design, machining, welding, coating. Objective to develop cost-effective processes that match customer cost goals

Wind power generator

Bearing cage

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

Land-based gas turbine

Nozzle component, first-stage

Leverage advanced Drill-to-Flow TechnologyTM, Six Sigma processes and advanced inspections methods to compress production cycles and facilitate rapid product launch

Quantifiable Values

  • Reduce cycle times of key manufacturing processes by 58%
  • 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 of 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