How BBraun Medical Incorporation Ensures Uninterrupted Production by using ETAP Intelligent Load Shedding

ETAP ILS is a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly Load Shedding solution. For BBraun and other systems that have multiple operating generation and critical loads that require a non-interrupted operation ETAP ILS is a must.
by Ms. Eric Ham, Senior Automation and Controls Engineer, ETAP Operation Technology

This case study explores the challenges BBraun Medical, a medical product manufacturing facility, faced due to unplanned outages and the absence of an optimized load shedding system. It highlights the implementation of ETAP Real-Time Intelligent Load Shedding (ILS) and ETAP's digital twin modeling capabilities to differentiate between subsystems and validate the ILS solution. The ILS solution ensured a rapid response to islanding conditions, maintaining the operation of critical loads while shedding non-critical ones, thereby minimizing production losses during outages. Additionally, the solution provided load optimization, flexible load priority adjustments, and real-time monitoring capabilities. Overall, the ETAP ILS solution enabled BBraun Medical to operate safely during disturbances and reduce the impact of utility disruptions, offering an effective load shedding strategy.

B. Braun is a German medical and pharmaceutical device company. It was founded in 1839 and is still owned by the Braun family. The company has more than 63,000 employees globally, and offices and production facilities in more than 60 countries. B. Braun is a provider of infusion therapy and pain management, and develops, manufactures, and markets innovative medical products and services to the healthcare industry. BBraun Medical Inc. has manufacturing facilities of medical products across the United States, Irvine too.

Location: Irvine, California, USA

Year: 2025

Intelligent Load Shedding for critical production processes

Challenges

  • Prioritize critical production processes and identify accordingly critical energy sources.
  • Maintain the critical loads to prevent any damage physically and financially in the electrical network.
  • Evaluate the power quality and prepare safe load shedding scenarios, based on the digital model.
  • Change existing Load Shedding scheme (was compiled of relays and timers) to reduce an unsafe operating conditions and costly outages.

Which solutions do they choose?

Selected applications

They selected ETAP Intelligent Load Shedding to analyze, model and operate electrical power sources, focusing on energy quality and load shedding algorithms.

ETAP ensures compliance with all needed electrical standards for designing and calculating in the critical facilities.

Why do they use Etap?

Main Customer Benefits

  • Easy digital modeling of the real grid system, with transformers, busbars, cables, and loads with real-time visibility of the electrical network, machines status and circuit breakers status too.
  • Easy automatic managing and optimization of load sheading an islanding by using safe scenarios based on priorities.
  • No critical processes interruption is affected by an electrical grid disturbance and no time loosing for system validation by energy regulators.
  • Reduced electrical equipment damage by reducing unnecessary disconnections and restarts.
  • Ability to predict and detect system malfunctions using an accurate digital model and validation tools for upgrades and expansion to the electrical system.

What do they think about ETAP?

Opinions

The ETAP ILS Solution for BBraun eliminates the impact from utility disturbances. while there is a disturbance, ETAP ILS allowed BBraun to operate safely in an islanded scenario. The solution helped BBraun minimize the loss of critical processes during an outage.
Ms. Eric Ham, Senior Automation and Controls Engineer, ETAP Operation Technology



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