Springtime means scheduled plant outages. Scheduling maintenance outages is more complicated that in the past, with many customers in need of more team members.

One of those customers found themselves lacking primarily in skilled millwrights. Knowing that it takes a lot of time to find that kind of talent, they turned to Decatur Industrial to fill the gaps. This facility required a planned daily outage once a week. However, they had been consistently short on manpower to accomplish the job. As a partner to this customer, we offered our millwright services so they could meet their plant performance goal. 

To date, we have logged over 40, 40- hour weeks of millwright work at the customer site. Our team enjoys knowing that our efforts have helped enabled the plant to hit production numbers.

Decatur Industrial has the talent on our team to help customers keep on schedule with items they don’t have the manpower to achieve.  Contact us today to see how we can provide technical services with an upcoming outage.

We can do extensive multi-point inspections of all your rotating equipment, but sometimes the biggest problems are the easiest to find.

To put it simply, the goal of a motor maintenance program is to stop problems before they occur!  Preventive motor maintenance on a regular basis can help prevent motors to fail and thus, prevent unexpected production stops. That’s where WE come in!

With this customer, Decatur Industrial works with them to run a motor maintenance program.  Our techs are trained to check for overheating of motors, bearing failures, and many other potential issues.

In this picture you see a cracked coupling.  Our technician spotted this on a schedule walk-around. We were able to avoid this near failure as well as safety issue. It could have sent debris or coupling pieces flying.

The customer was able to avoid a failure (and potential safety incident) and have it replaced quickly.