Location: Leinster, Ireland
Facility Type: Pharmaceutical Production
Assets Mapped: 8,716 Across 1,560 Rooms
Deployment Date: September 2021
Return on Investment: Business Continuity - Zero unnecessary evacuations sense deployment. (Down from 2/3 per month)
Our life science client faced a challenge in efficiently locating alarms due to their size and complexity. The client aimed to improve emergency response by refining the placement of fire system-related devices, thus minimizing response times, evacuations, and downtime. PlantQuest was tasked with delivering a solution resembling Google Maps for fire detection and EHS assets spread throughout numerous rooms, ensuring continuous operations.
The brownfield facility was built in 1992 and is one of Europe's most extensive solid-dose pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. With a workforce of over 800, the facility runs a 24-hour operation and comprises of over 1,500 rooms, 12 buildings, and 4 levels.
Since its deployment, the facility has reduced the its average alarm response time by up to 73%, with no alarm taking more than 12 minutes to locate and navigate to. This has resulted in their being no double knock activation/unnecessary evacuations since its deployment in 2021 (down from 2/3 per month). All of this was achieved with zero impact on the overall facility operations.
Operational efficiency has never been more critical for the clients facility, especially given their commitment to manufacturing critical pharmaceutical products. On top of this, operational efficiency significantly impacts the financial performance of any facility, especially given the costs involved in an evacuation and production downtime.
PlantQuest surpassed the clients expectations by delivering a Google Maps-like solution deployed on desktop and tablet. Digitising over 300 fire layout drawings, the facility's ERT can now seamlessly locate any alarm across their facility in 50% to 75% less time. Aiding this is PlantQuest's ability to allow responders to locate and navigate to any alarm across the facility, regardless of location and the tablet's network connectivity. Commissioned with as little as two days on-site, zero interruption was made to the daily operations of the facility during implementation and commissioning.
