Objectives:

Provide the highest quality Engineering, Technical and Business Services for Power Generation and Energy businesses worldwide.  Services range from fundamental design analysis, through the construction of turnkey Power Plants.  The Foster Company USA utilizes experts from all fields of study, applied to Turbines, Generators, Rotating Equipment, Substations, and Balance of Plant Equipment. 

Services:

The Foster Company USA is pleased to offer full power plant engineering services to our customers.  The following is a brief list highlighting some of The Foster Company USA major services.  Other services may be provided as requested.

• Power plant design, development, from installation through commercialization.
• Turbine Design reviews for applications involving new or used equipment.
• Engineering, Design, and Furnishing of Balance of Plant (BOP) equipment.
• Vendor qualifications/audits and source inspection.
• Operator training from basic machining through maintenance and operation. 
• Contract negotiations for maintenance as well as inventory control and analysis.
• Recommendations on maintenance part planning.
• Complete inspection and recommendations on repairs and services.
• Complete flange-to-flange engineering support for Gas & Steam turbine, radial flow and axial compressor.
  Design and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Borescope inspection capabilities, including measuring of defect size.
• Gas & Steam Path Analysis for reliability, risk analysis, re-rates and efficiency impacts.
• Failure analysis of all power plant defects / accidents.
• Projected life assessments on all Gas & Steam turbine rotating equipment.
• Complete equipment support both used and new.
• Complete Harmonic Evaluation capability for per rev buckets, both constant and variable speed machines,
• Finite Element Analysis capabilities, FEA for detailed analysis.