Comprehensive security in a chemical industrial plant.
Henkel operates globally with a well-balanced and diversified portfolio. The company holds leading positions with its three business units in both industrial and consumer businesses thanks to strong brands, innovations and technologies. Henkel Adhesive Technologies is the global leader in the adhesives market – across all industry segments worldwide. In its Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses, Henkel holds leading positions in many markets and categories around the world. Founded in 1876, Henkel looks back on more than 140 years of success. Henkel employs more than 50,000 people globally.
The challenge was the creation of an emergency and service control center in order to ensure comprehensive security in the Düsseldorf plant as well as throughout the entire group. The different technologies at the Düsseldorf location had to be made operable in a uniform way and the workflows of factory security, plant fire brigade and corporate security had to be optimized.
“It was our intention to continue working with different manufacturers of technical security and building management systems in order to always remain independent. WinGuard as a vendor-neutral Physical Security Information Management System offered the optimal solution, as it integrates the comprehensive infrastructure of our location.”
WinGuard is the comprehensive solution.
In addition to the classic risk of a fire, there are lots of other challenges in chemical industry that require high security precautions, such as e.g. unauthorized access to specific areas, but also failure of technical infrastructure such as building automation. As an independent and vendor-neutral Physical Security Information Management System, WinGuard offers an integration platform for processing of all events that are registered by the connected security, building management as well as information systems.
Event messages issued by the fire and intrusion detection as well as access control systems, video cameras, but e.g. also temperature surveillance of the server room are displayed in a well-visible user interface so that all linked systems can be managed in a uniform way. Guided workflows help the user to initiate the appropriate measures in order to prevent potential failures, for switching to fallback levels or to schedule preventive maintenance at technical systems. In case of an incoming event message, both the local control center as well as responsible personnel on site in the plant is informed by telephone. In addition, WinGuard enables forwarding of automatic actions to other systems, e.g. video systems, including surveillance and complete storage of all performed actions. At the Henkel site Düsseldorf, there is a perimeter protection over a length of 7 km, combined with video surveillance. In case of an event, the alarm can be evaluated in WinGuard and, if required, be escalated to an emergency response. Due to the connection of WinGuard to incident management systems, this process is very user-friendly so that emergency forces and resources can be provided immediately. By outsourcing of building automation, light and door control, public address announcements and intercom calls, it is ensured that the security control center only focuses on the relevant events.
Built to keep expanding
In addition to Düsseldorf, it is easily possible to connect further Henkel locations to WinGuard in the future, so that, according to the requirements, control of all systems can be taken over either by the local or superordinated control center. With WinGuard, maintenance of the connected systems can be efficiently organized, for example using the “Control Operations” module, offering a reliable control management, e.g. for disablement and reactivation of fire detectors during welding works.
WinGuard integrates all connected systems.
Alarms from every connected system, fire and intrusion detection, video and the rest, are visualised the same way. Each arrives with a detailed action text covering location, access route and hazardous-substance information, and names who is responsible. AutoCAD-DWG graphics zoom from the whole plant down to a single room.
The complex system structure is presented in simplified form: the status of every system component and every important network element, online, offline or failed, on one surface. Bottlenecks and single points of failure in the IT infrastructure are visible before they take a security system down with them.
Mobile devices with a touch-optimised interface handle daily business, intercom calls included, with quick access to evacuation, floodlighting and opening the garage doors for patrol cars. The complete interface can be taken to the fire brigade’s backup control centre.
