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EMPOWERING FOOD RETAILERS TO MAKE PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE A REALITY
By Danfoss
Smart Refrigeration Solution has been incorporated into Danfoss ’ Alsense IoT cloud-based services .
The combined offering now represents a holistic store-level software suite , originally developed by Honeywell , thereby shifting store maintenance from the reactive to a proactive capability . This enables food retailers to prioritise and reduce their maintenance efforts across stores and critical events .
“ We are putting predictive maintenance into action , allowing the food retail industry to prevent unplanned cooling system downtime and inefficiencies in energy consumption ,” says Jürgen Fischer , president of Danfoss Cooling Segment .
“ Combining the Smart Refrigeration Solution with our existing Alsense portfolio accelerates our ambition of meeting food retail customers ’ needs for optimising and proactively maintaining a high store performance ,” says Natalie Schnippering , head of Product Management Digital Services at Danfoss . “ The solution goes beyond the traditional monitoring systems that are primarily providing alarms and data overviews . It identifies operating issues , such as compressor failure or coil icing , and provides hands-on guidance to fix them .”
Alsense provides food retailers with transparency and executive overviews of refrigeration assets and energy efficiency at the chain level . The combined Alsense offering will enable managers to easily benchmark and prioritise efforts across stores to save time and optimise the impact of their maintenance spend . It provides service technicians with a prioritised action
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Danfoss at Frigair in Midrand .
plan , empowering them to immediately address equipment performance and operating concerns upon arrival at a store .
“ The Smart Refrigeration Solution software was developed based on customer requirements gathered from leading food retailers who were looking to save money by reducing energy spend and improving the performance of their refrigeration system ,” says Chris LaPietra , vice president and general manager , Honeywell Stationary Refrigerants . RACA
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