CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY- A FACILITY SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY

At EHT Group, we take a lot of pride in our facility assessments and electrical heat trace solutions to ensure that your facility operates at its best and you do not have to worry about piping and equipment freezes, and costly bursts. We unfortunately have seen it time and time again, where companies are spending too much time and money monitoring and managing their electrical heat trace infrastructure with little visibility. We care about Electrical Heat Trace, we care about your operations and we care about the environment, and our solutions can save you time and money.

The Company: SAGD Facility, Alberta CAN  

The Problem:  

• A Facility Maintenance Superintendent came to us after having 3 years of operational problems, having zero visibility into the health of their 5K EHT circuits. They knew they were overspending on non-productive labour hours with frustrated operations, team members and riddled with risks of operational upsets (freezes). The most frustrating part is they have a monitoring platform in place and an outside resource managing it on site.  

The Solution:  

• After a quick facility assessment, we were able to see which areas we could improve. What we found:
  • 100 Forced on circuits resulting in over  1,196 MWH wasted on heat tracing that no longer needed to be forced on.  
  • An estimated $70,362 spent on power costs, or energy that could have been sold back to the grid.  
  • $300,000 EHT Monitoring Budget and $246,000 EHT Wasted Field Management costs  
• Implement a SmartTrace system into the facility  

The Results:  

• SmartTrace Management allowed us to reallocate man hours to other scheduled work, saving both time and resources. We were able to reduce their heat trace management budget from $300,000 to $75,000.  
• SmartTrace Management provided clear notifications that make it easy to plan and schedule.  
• Finally visibility on the overall health of their heat trace infrastructure related to systems that are important to them.  
• Operate with more comfort knowing that their heat trace system is being monitored with the highest quality of scrutiny, ensuring that critical circuits are brought to attention immediately after they occur.  

The Results in Numbers:  

• 85 initial work tickets eliminated  
• 160 annual work tickets eliminated 
• 966 hours  reduced in field team walk downs 
• 416 hours networking controller hours reduced 
• 12 forced on EHT  from 100   
• Estimated 1,005 MWH saved  
• An estimated $70,360+ power cost savings  

In total, SmartTrace Management saved this particular facility $587,222. For more information on SmartTrace or to see how EHT Group can help create more efficiencies at your facility, connect with us.