"FOMIS is the best conference; it's our peer group so we need to be able to talk about deregulation, competition, all these issues. Everyone's facing the same problem. For the cost of it, FOMIS seems like a very good way to keep up."
Dennis Killian, Superintendent, Technical Services
Intermountain Power Service
At a FOMIS conference: "We heard a presentation from someone whose superheat spray liners were breaking up and shifting, causing numerous tube leaks. As a result at our next outage, even though the OEM said there was no need to go in, we did inspect and lo and behold, we found exactly what was described. We ended up replacing all four spray header liners. We avoided an inevitable forced outage that would have cost $25,000 to $250,000 a day."
Ken Hart, Maintenance Manager
Seminole Station, Seminole Electric Coop
"The Outage 'Best Practices' Seminar allows us to improve our processes and review other sites' 'best practices' quickly. As a result, a benchmarking study revealed a relationship between Mohave's maintenance costs and our corresponding outage planning efforts. Since major outages are a significant component of maintenance costs, you can really make an impact on the bottom line."
Bill Pemberton, Technical Specialist
Mohave Station, Southern California Edison
"The FOMIS Conference is a huge value. We send as many people as we can - we always pick up a few things which save us a lot of money. We've recently decided to send our outage coordinator to the next Outage Best Practices Seminar so that we can perform our unit outages more effectively."
Tom Cochran, Project Manger, Power Production
Lakeland Utilities, McIntosh Station
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