Preventing Operating Room Downtime with MOVUS

Industry

Healthcare

Asset

Chillers and Motors

Technology

FitMachine

A healthcare facility, specifically a surgery center, faced a critical challenge in maintaining uninterrupted operations.

The center relied on chillers and motors to provide conditioned air to operating rooms, ensuring a stable environment for surgical procedures. Any failure in these critical assets could result in cancelled surgeries, leading to significant financial losses, disruptions to patient care, and potential risks to patient safety. Given the high stakes, the facility needed a reliable predictive maintenance solution to detect early signs of equipment failure and take corrective action before disruptions occurred.

Through our partnership with Zurich, a Zurich risk engineer assisted the surgery center with the installation of MOVUS FitMachines on essential chillers and motors. The FitMachine sensors continuously monitored vibration, temperature, and noise levels, providing real-time insights into asset health through the MachineCloud Dashboard. Shortly after installation, the FitMachine detected abnormal behavior in a motor supplying conditioned air to an operating room.

The system flagged an anomaly that indicated an impending failure, alerting the facility’s maintenance team to investigate the issue before it escalated. Without this early warning, the facility risked sudden equipment failure, forcing costly emergency responses and surgical rescheduling.

Fault Avoided

Acting on the FitMachine’s early warning, the surgery center promptly scheduled a replacement for the failing motor overnight. By addressing the issue proactively, the facility prevented what could have been a major operational disruption. If the motor had failed during operating hours, multiple surgeries would have been delayed or cancelled, impacting both patient care and the center’s financial performance.

Further inspection of the failed motor corroborated the FitMachine’s findings, revealing early signs of degradation that would have gone unnoticed without continuous monitoring. The ability to diagnose issues in advance allowed the facility to execute a seamless maintenance intervention with minimal disruption to operations.

By avoiding an unplanned failure, the facility prevented an estimated $30,000 per hour in lost revenue due to cancelled surgeries. Additionally, the real-time insights provided by FitMachine ensured that maintenance teams could optimize their response time, reducing emergency repair costs and extending the lifespan of critical assets.

The Outcome

The proactive approach helped prevent delays to necessary surgeries, ensuring patients received timely care. This intervention demonstrated the tangible benefits of predictive maintenance, reinforcing the importance of proactive asset health monitoring in high-risk environments—not just for equipment reliability, but also for ensuring the safety and well-being of the public.

The MOVUS FitMachine provided the surgery center with a critical early warning that allowed for timely intervention, resulting in:

Reduced Downtime: Operations continued seamlessly, ensuring no disruption to scheduled surgeries.

Cost Savings: Avoidance of significant revenue losses and emergency repair expenses.

Increased Reliability: The facility could plan maintenance based on real-time condition data, reducing the risk of unexpected failures.

Improved Patient Care: By maintaining optimal environmental conditions in operating rooms, the facility upheld its commitment to patient safety and high-quality surgical outcomes.

By avoiding an unplanned failure, the facility prevented an estimated $30,000 per hour in lost revenue due to cancelled surgeries.

Preventing Operating Room Downtime with MOVUS

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