Case Study: B. Braun Medical achieves uninterrupted healthcare operations with ETAP Intelligent Load Shedding

B. Braun Médical avoids $1 million outages with ETAP

B. Braun Medical, a major medical product manufacturer, faced significant challenges due to unplanned power outages at its Irvine, California facility. The absence of an optimized load-shedding system meant that grid disturbances would cause a complete plant shutdown, leading to costly production losses and safety issues. To address this, B. Braun partnered with vendor ETAP to explore improvements using the ETAP Real-time Intelligent Load Shedding (iLS) solution.

ETAP implemented a solution that began with creating a digital twin of the electrical network for analysis. They then deployed the ETAP iLS system, which proactively calculates and executes optimal load shedding in real-time during disturbances. This resulted in critical operations being maintained during outages, achieving estimated cost savings of approximately $1 million per outage event. The ETAP solution also minimized production loss and eliminated the need for lengthy regulatory re-validations after unexpected shutdowns.

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