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Honeywell Forge Enhances Maintenance and Comfort in Canadian Hospitals

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics Functional Applications - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
Applicable Industries	Buildings Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Facility Management Maintenance
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Predictive Maintenance
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Bluewater Health, a Canadian healthcare facility with hospitals in Petrolia and Sarnia, Ontario, faced several challenges. The organization, which includes a 10-year-old redevelopment and addition to a 60-year-old building and a 110-year-old building in the midst of redevelopment, had to deal with the complexities of managing multiple locations with varying infrastructure. The new construction incorporated many innovative and sustainable design features, but these also brought the challenge of consolidating many inputs of information and technology into one stream of collection and output. Budget constraints and the need to spread finances across every need were also a concern. The Bluewater Health team wanted to perform predictive maintenance, learning from operating data to see issues before they became problems. They sought an intelligent platform that could work with, learn from and grow with their current systems. Read More
About Customer	Bluewater Health is a Canadian healthcare facility with hospitals in Petrolia and Sarnia, Ontario. The organization features a 10-year-old redevelopment and addition to a 60-year-old building and a 110-year-old building in the midst of redevelopment. The 317,000 sq. ft. addition to the facility in Sarnia featured a significantly larger emergency department; a surgical center with eight operating rooms and four procedure rooms and a consolidated maternal/infant/child program, with labor, birthing and pediatric services all on one floor. The new construction also incorporated many innovative and sustainable design features, such as an underground cistern to collect rainwater, a grey water system for toilets, a state-of-the-art chiller and a new combined heat and power generating plant ready to come online. This makes Bluewater Health one of Canada’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified hospitals. Read More
Solution	Bluewater Health leveraged Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based AI solution that autonomously manages HVAC energy use based on numerous demand factors. The solution captures real-time building data across an entire building portfolio and calculates the optimal set-point strategy for each building, then automatically adjusts the set-points without human intervention. The Honeywell Forge solution was implemented with a direct plan on where the critical start areas were and rules were put into effect for the best analysis. The system began to pull from over 1000 sources of information and provided feedback on anything giving readings outside the acceptable range. The platform allowed facilities and maintenance staff to curtail any issues before they arose, and focus on increasing efficiencies. The maintenance staff could now spend more time performing regular, planned maintenance and strategizing about how to improve systems, rather than reacting to concerns reported by frontline staff. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics

Functional Applications - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Maintenance

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Predictive Maintenance

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Bluewater Health, a Canadian healthcare facility with hospitals in Petrolia and Sarnia, Ontario, faced several challenges. The organization, which includes a 10-year-old redevelopment and addition to a 60-year-old building and a 110-year-old building in the midst of redevelopment, had to deal with the complexities of managing multiple locations with varying infrastructure. The new construction incorporated many innovative and sustainable design features, but these also brought the challenge of consolidating many inputs of information and technology into one stream of collection and output. Budget constraints and the need to spread finances across every need were also a concern. The Bluewater Health team wanted to perform predictive maintenance, learning from operating data to see issues before they became problems. They sought an intelligent platform that could work with, learn from and grow with their current systems.

About Customer

Bluewater Health is a Canadian healthcare facility with hospitals in Petrolia and Sarnia, Ontario. The organization features a 10-year-old redevelopment and addition to a 60-year-old building and a 110-year-old building in the midst of redevelopment. The 317,000 sq. ft. addition to the facility in Sarnia featured a significantly larger emergency department; a surgical center with eight operating rooms and four procedure rooms and a consolidated maternal/infant/child program, with labor, birthing and pediatric services all on one floor. The new construction also incorporated many innovative and sustainable design features, such as an underground cistern to collect rainwater, a grey water system for toilets, a state-of-the-art chiller and a new combined heat and power generating plant ready to come online. This makes Bluewater Health one of Canada’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified hospitals.

Solution

Bluewater Health leveraged Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based AI solution that autonomously manages HVAC energy use based on numerous demand factors. The solution captures real-time building data across an entire building portfolio and calculates the optimal set-point strategy for each building, then automatically adjusts the set-points without human intervention. The Honeywell Forge solution was implemented with a direct plan on where the critical start areas were and rules were put into effect for the best analysis. The system began to pull from over 1000 sources of information and provided feedback on anything giving readings outside the acceptable range. The platform allowed facilities and maintenance staff to curtail any issues before they arose, and focus on increasing efficiencies. The maintenance staff could now spend more time performing regular, planned maintenance and strategizing about how to improve systems, rather than reacting to concerns reported by frontline staff.

Impact #1	The implementation of Honeywell Forge brought about several operational benefits. The maintenance staff expressed increased job fulfillment as they spent more time performing regular, planned maintenance and strategizing about how to improve systems, rather than reacting to concerns reported by frontline staff. They were now able to monitor and track live maintenance data through a dashboard showing trends, vulnerabilities and predictive comfort levels. This increased the comfort level for staff, as they could be more confident that everything from the operating rooms to the chemotherapy prep areas, and the isolation rooms to the infant nurseries were all working optimally. The peak performance of systems coupled with the predictive corrective measures ensured that the patients themselves enjoyed the cleanest, most ideal temperature-controlled rooms and enhanced both their healthcare experience and overall comfort level. The support services manager’s role became more proactive, allowing them to spend more time proactively caring for these impressive facilities that provide care for the community.

Impact #1

The implementation of Honeywell Forge brought about several operational benefits. The maintenance staff expressed increased job fulfillment as they spent more time performing regular, planned maintenance and strategizing about how to improve systems, rather than reacting to concerns reported by frontline staff. They were now able to monitor and track live maintenance data through a dashboard showing trends, vulnerabilities and predictive comfort levels. This increased the comfort level for staff, as they could be more confident that everything from the operating rooms to the chemotherapy prep areas, and the isolation rooms to the infant nurseries were all working optimally. The peak performance of systems coupled with the predictive corrective measures ensured that the patients themselves enjoyed the cleanest, most ideal temperature-controlled rooms and enhanced both their healthcare experience and overall comfort level. The support services manager’s role became more proactive, allowing them to spend more time proactively caring for these impressive facilities that provide care for the community.

Benefit #1	12.97% Average reduction in energy use
Benefit #2	11.71% Average reduction in natural gas use
Benefit #3	Potential for cost savings by changing air filters in the hospital only when they truly needed to be changed, possibly extending the life of existing filters by six months to a year

Benefit #1

12.97% Average reduction in energy use

Benefit #2

11.71% Average reduction in natural gas use

Benefit #3

Potential for cost savings by changing air filters in the hospital only when they truly needed to be changed, possibly extending the life of existing filters by six months to a year

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Honeywell Forge Enhances Maintenance and Comfort in Canadian Hospitals

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