From an operational point of view Data Centers are very similar to production facilities using sophisticated production hardware. If there is a fall out, an unplanned downtime of a server, cooling element, power supply or any critical element of the server farm, then it might cause significant loss, or can affect all surrounding elements.
The highest risk and related cost in Data Centers is not the maintenance cost itself, but the effects that a breakdown can cause. With OrthoGraph and by implementing Operational BIM workflows all these costs can be highly reduced, even downtimes might be minimized or prevented
Identifying every maintenance point
By inventorying every maintenance point into the Digital Twin of the Data Center, adding them barcodes, QR Codes or RFIDs
- Exact inventory of all servers and HVAC systems of the Data Center with 3D positions for all elements
- Unique identifiers on all assets to be used for identification, or workflow control
- such as maintenance person checks if the machine to be maintained is the one it is supposed to
- following moves
- Additional properties stored with all assets – including photos, thermal images
- All accessible onsite using iPads/iPhones and in the office using simple web browsers
- Open API to support integration with CMMS, BMS etc.
- for data exchange
- for graphical reporting
- for locating elements
- Dedicated link for every element – inventory and graphical elements too
- Follow up all changes when and where they happen by regular maintenance crew
- All data history to check back any previous state – including all attachments
- Photos, panoramas and thermal images supported
- Open API for system integration – including embeddable 3D/2D web viewer
Benefits:
- Minimizing or preventing downtimes by
- navigating to the given server or maintenance point by using floor plan + 3D
- navigating to the given server or maintenance point by using floor plan + 3D
- When serious intervention is required – e.g. in case of fire – fireworkers can plan and prepare for the intervention by accessing the 3D model + panoramas
- Providing revokable temporary access to the 3D model in web browser for tendering
- Accurate data for tendering
- Optimizing usage layout by using the accurate 3D model
- BMS and Server operational system integrations
- including graphical colorizing reports
- Customizability based on user demands
And these are only the simplest and most understandable benefits of the solution. Once someone starts to use it, more and more possibilities arise.
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