by Groome Industrial | Aug 26, 2026 | GT Plant Solutions
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 6 The only system on the plant whose failure gets blamed on something else — usually on the most expensive asset you own. Output is off about two percent. Heat rate has crept. Nobody can point to an event, so the water washes get...
by Groome Industrial | Aug 25, 2026 | GT Plant Solutions
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 5 The one place on the plant where deferral doesn’t buy you time. It buys you a deadline somebody else sets. The day a notice of violation arrives, the plant is usually running fine. Nothing tripped. Nothing alarmed. Availability for...
by Groome Industrial | Aug 19, 2026 | GT Plant Solutions
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 4 The one system that takes its cut without ever tripping a unit, setting an alarm, or generating a line in the outage report. Every other failure on a plant announces itself. A tube leak takes the unit down. A compressor problem...
by Groome Industrial | Aug 4, 2026 | GT Plant Solutions
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 3 No moving parts, a fraction of the attention, and more forced outages to its name than anything else on site. Ask a plant manager to name the riskiest asset on site and you’ll usually hear “the turbine.” Pull five years of...
by Groome Industrial | Jul 13, 2026 | GT Plant Solutions
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 2 Why the best-run plants treat availability as a property of the whole system — and manage it that way. Two combined-cycle plants: same vintage, same OEM equipment, similar staffing. One runs at 96% availability year after year. The...
