Materials and production engineering advice
KGAL’s employees have decades of contracting, construction and manufacturing experience. This enables us to provide materials selection and production advice in appropriate areas. For instance:
- Special stainless steel alloys for high strength components
- Appropriate materials for low temperature fabrications
- Material combinations in fresh and salt water
- Corrosion protection systems
- Metallurgical engineering
- Production expediting
Recent consultancy advice in this area has included:
- The development of jigs and methods for assembling permanent magnet generators in a factory
- Production advice for heavy fabrications to be built within a temporary fabrication facility
- Factory inspection and acceptance witness testing of various machinery
- Advice on selection of contractors for heavy fabrication work
- Factory acceptance inspection of large hydroelectric components
- QA auditing of production records
Our combination of experience, expertise and wide-ranging backgrounds in engineering and construction ensures our staff are best placed to provide consultancy advice on all aspects of materials selection and production engineering.
The pictures show (l) the partially built temporary manufacturing facility at the Xayaburi HPP site in Laos and (r) the plant in use. The ‘factory’ was created so that the hydraulic steel structures and other fabricated components could be manufacturde and painted on site.