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Beyond The Owner's Manual: Getting The Most From Natural Gas-Fueled Engine Generator Sets

Posted by Andrew S.
Caterpillar, Inc.

172 days ago

A site- and engine-specific maintenance program built around trend analysis can maximize your equipment’s most valuable commodity: productive time online.

Your gas engine-generator sets’ most valuable commodity is time – specifically uptime producing power and revenue. It follows that the goal of engine maintenance is to enable as much uptime as possible. In essence, high uptime spreads capital and operating costs over more kilowatt hours – reducing the critical variable of cost per kilowatt-hour. While the costs of replacement components, fluids, supplies and labor are important, uptime outweighs them all. That naturally means unplanned downtime is to be avoided, especially for major failures and lengthy repairs. But it also means planned downtime must be kept to the minimum appropriate to the application.

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