Compliance Services | Herlev Hospital

Automation helps to secure optimal sample storage at Herlev Hospital

When Herlev Hospital moved all its cooling and freezing cabinets together in one location, Init helped connect them virtually, too.

 

With almost 1 million patients a year, Herlev Hospital collects numerous samples, e.g. blood and tissue samples, which are stored in the hospitals cooling and freezing cabinets. For a while, the hospital has been planning to gather the many cooling and freezing cabinets in one place – both location and system-wise.

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Aspiration

Optimising hospital processes

The purpose of bringing the approximately 180 cabinets together is to be able to:

 

  • store the samples in the most responsible way
  • optimise operational reliability, and
  • improve the way alarms are handled.

The cabinets require individual temperatures between +5 and -140 degrees Celsius, depending on the types of samples stored in the cabinet.

Solution

Connecting hospital automation for full compliance

Init has delivered automation consultancy and conceptual design of the monitoring system as well as the programming and commissioning of both PLC and SCADA applications.

 

The applied solution is based on Bihl+Wiedemann’s ASi system which has been utilised in previous automation tasks at the hospital. The combination modules are linked to an ASi master via an ASi cable. The ASi masters are via Profinet connected to the Siemens PLC, which functions as overall control and processer power on top of the entire ASi network. The Siemens PLC communicates with the overall WinCC SCADA system which monitors most of the hospital.

 

The new setup meets requirements for documentation of temperature in the cabinets during storage. We retrofitted sensors in all lockers which send an alert to the overall SCADA system in case of non-conformities.

Reach out

for more information

Jesper Thorlund Jensen

Project Director

+45 24 86 27 24

[email protected]

Init Søborg, Denmark

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