Making your plant resilient

Upgrade your infrastructure without adding debt

You may not call it “resilience,” but you have a real need to keep your people safe and your plant running in the face of disruption — be it a tornado, a power outage, a cyber attack or a catastrophic equipment failure. Here’s the real question: Where do you put your money?

August 20, 2024

Every time you take a step to eliminate process inefficiencies, increase uptime or assure continuity through redundancies, you increase resilience. At the same time, you have other uses for available cash, from new equipment to plant expansions. How do you protect your balance sheet while protecting your business against disruption? Here are three realistic strategies.

1. Focus on what you can control.

You can’t stop the next power outage. But you can recognize that increasingly frequent heat waves, intense cold spells and violent storms are putting more pressure on an already stressed grid—and you can prepare.

Infrastructure improvements optimize and modernize existing facilities and new builds. Johnson Controls helps facilities of all sizes use less energy, reducing operating and capital costs. Along the way you’ll also reduce carbon emissions, a good step toward sustainability goals.
Diversified energy sources help you maintain a continuous power supply and also manage energy costs. Renewables like solar and wind, in tandem with onsite battery storage, can serve as a backup or even a primary energy source. And you may be able to sell power back to the grid.
Advisory services can help you see the big picture and zero in on next steps. Johnson Controls takes a holistic view, looking for opportunities to innovate and bundling solutions from HVAC retrofits to lighting upgrades to process improvement, enhancing productivity.

2. Look for ways to hand off risk.

With the rise of as-a-service models, you can delegate decision-making and operating responsibilities to providers who shoulder the related risks. For example, Johnson Controls infrastructure as a service (IaaS) lets you optimize HVAC equipment, central utility plants and other infrastructure—without committing upfront capital.

We take on the risks and responsibilities of lifecycle planning, funding and servicing.
You make regular payments that don’t affect your borrowing capabilities.
Savings from the projects help offset your payments, which are tied to measurable outcomes.

Our team can help you explore other financing options favorable to your balance sheet, including public-private partnerships, government tax credits and utility incentive programs. And we help you further reduce risk with an array of proactive and predictive maintenance plans to support business continuity.

3. Recognize what makes a good partner.

In reality, resilience begins not with a piece of equipment or a maintenance plan but with a partner who sticks with you in the face of tornadoes and power outages and pandemics. Look for a partner with the willingness to meet you where you’re at, a commitment to service beyond the sale, and the financial stability to be there as you work toward your goals.

Johnson Controls offers all this, plus the experience to bring complex projects together—managing every aspect from financial to legal to mechanical.

Plant modernization will save $960,000 a year

Recent upgrades at our Norman, Oklahoma, manufacturing facility demonstrate the power of cutting-edge Johnson Controls technology. The 900,000 squarefoot facility houses research, manufacturing and testing for Johnson Controls HVAC rooftop units. Facing common challenges such as deferred maintenance and competing capital priorities, leaders designed, digitalized and deployed a complete facility upgrade with minimal disruption to operations.

Katie McGinty, vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer at Johnson Controls, says the project relies on our OpenBlue digital platform to automate reporting and drive greater insights through data, advancing net zero goals. “The success at our Norman plant serves as a decarbonization blueprint to inspire other organizations to do the same,” she said.

Improvements include a more efficient central utility plant, onsite solar generation, and water conservation measures projected to save 3.5 million gallons of purchased water a year. Financing via infrastructure as a service helps preserve capital for other investments. The project is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43% and generate $960,000 in annual savings.

The time to get prepared is here. Contact us today.

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