Case Studies

Controls integrated by Niagara ease Whirlpool’s maintenance planning and enable rapid emergency response.

• World’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances
• The $12 billion-a-year, home appliance company conducts manufacturing operations on four continents and markets products in 170 different countries

• Migrate its 24/7 global central data center from a mainframe environment to a high density server environment
• Overhaul the redundant backup systems for power and chilled water to make sure the mission-critical facility never failed
• Incorporate state of the art HVAC control systems
• Tie together 15 types of equipment from multiple manufacturers with multiple protocols in their integral controllers

• Integrated controls to ensure better maintenance and enable a rapid emergency response
• With a team of Niagara Certified engineers from ControlNET plus support staff developed “best of breed” open-protocol, web-based solutions in the building automation sector
• Integrated enterprise-wide systems to control all the sub-systems from a single location

• Integrated controls make it much easier to plan and conduct maintenance on the multi-million dollar power system
• The control system can tell if there are problems with the equipment – pumps, air conditioners, whatever – that need tending to
• A tool to help facilities managers undertake maintenance
• The entire system is monitored for alarms and dispatched 24/7/365 using Tridium’s Vykon Alarm Service (VAS)
• By integrating Niagara-enabled tools, the complex project met fast-track time line goals.