Services, Diagnostics & training

Design Know-how for Reliability

CST has a deep design knowledge, capable to solve the toughest challenges in the operation and maintenance of rotating equipment. Its engineering team can provide a comprehensive portfolio of services to trace and solve the most significant operational problems.

CST & BLACKSTONE INDUSTRIAL: UNIQUE INTEGRATED MACHINERY SERVICES

CST recently associated with Blackstone Industrial. The CST deep design know-how and capabilities combined with Blackstone Industrial experience on multi-brand rotating equipment maintenance in the field, and in shop provides an unparalleled value to end users to maintain and manage their assets across plant lifecycle.

CST-Blackstone Industrial provides a ‘one stop shop’ service support on rotating equipment for plant turnarounds thanks to a comprehensive capability in machinery outage, engineering analysis to trace and solve most significant operational problems. Blackstone Industrial has an extensive footprint in North America and partnerships in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East to support end users locally.

This new association can quickly mobilize its technical experts to provide plant walkdown, equipment health assessment, troubleshooting, failure analysis and improvement plans, and outages services on multi-brand rotating equipment. Customers receive the best support across their equipment lifecycle

OVERCOMING RECURRENT FAILURES

Machinery reliability is often impaired by recurrent failures, which are accepted by operators and expected to be unavoidable. With its design engineering know-how and experience, CST can study the behavior of the machine in its environment from scratch and accept the challenge to identify sustainable remedies, thus overcoming an apparently unimprovable issue.

CST SERVICE CAPABILITIES. CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO KNOW MORE

field engineering & machinery operation analysis
Our experts help matching the actual plant needs with the machine capability.
root cause analysis trobleshooting
Quick mobilization of our experts on site to help finding the solution to sudden or recurrent failures.
healthcare packages
Asset life-cycle management programs.
remote monitoring & telediagnostics
Your machinery can be monitored and diagnosed by our experts located at headquarters in Florence Italy.
plant assessment
Efficiency, reliability and adequacy to new duties and standards of complete compression stations can be assessed by CST.
revamping, modernization & upgrade
Cost effective solutions for rejuvenation of components and equipment.
foundation block repair
Foundation block repair and immprovement. Re-engineering with dynamic analysis.
training courses
Improve your team skill leveraging competences of CST pool of specialists.

we care. CST success stories

short piston ring life
Paper mill compressor piston seals quick wear was troubleshooted by piston rings improvement.
high hyper-compressor piping vibration
High piping vibrations on a Hyper-compressor was investigated and cured by strain-gage pressure measurement, pulsation analysis, orifices insertion and support modification.
steel mil igcc failure
After two catastrophic failures of an integrally geared centrifugal compressor, CST RCA allowed to put it back online successfully by changing bearings.

For information on CST activities, email to:

FILIPPO CINELLI at filippo.cinelli@cstfirenze.com

LUCIA MATTESINI at lucia.mattesini@cstfirenze.com

GIULIA TOSI at giulia.tosi@cstfirenze.com