World Refrigeration Day: Showcasing Cool Skills

This year, the campaign focuses on ‘Cool Skills’, demonstrating the significant contributions and advancements made by the experts within our industry, covering both refrigeration and HVAC. 

We’re dedicated to showcasing each of our talented staff members through our ‘Inside IMS’ blog series, but on this occasion, let’s talk more generally...

Using data in context

Refrigeration is a vital sector, and without the ‘cool skills’ that refrigeration experts possess, food could be stored incorrectly and become unsafe or wasted, causing risk for consumers and wasted money for businesses.

Engineers have a deep understanding of refrigeration equipment and assets, but our technology takes the hands-on expertise they already have and arms them with added insights and context. Augmenting their work with data helps them work faster, increase the performance of assets, and improve fix rates.

By gathering and contextualising, our platform provides engineers with the history of an asset, enabling them to look at how it’s working now and how it’s worked in the past. This can help them get to the root cause of an issue faster by analysing when it went wrong, why, and how often.

Having access to contextualised data also allows Condition Based Maintenance policies to be wrapped around these assets. These policies can flag when an issue might be operating within its performance threshold but not as well as it should be, which can have a detrimental impact on energy use. With this information, engineers can get ahead of issues, proactively rectifying future faults rather than acting in a reactive loop.

These policies can also be applied differently to assets that hold different goods. For example, fridges holding highly temperature-sensitive products such as meat can be given earlier alarms than those holding cans of drinks, and these can be adjusted based on whether a fridge is in a hot or cold environment.

Highlighting cool skills for the future

World Refrigeration Day is a crucial initiative that highlights just how diverse an industry like the refrigeration sector is, which is hugely important to attract the next generation of talent. It also gives us the platform to recognise the talent that we already have and the vital importance of the customer work we do.

We are nothing without the talented individuals working tirelessly to ensure that fridges and HVAC systems are working as they should be. For consumers, this might be one of those industries that you don’t notice until it goes wrong, but that’s how we know we’re doing the best work for our customers.

At IMS Evolve, we’re proud to be arming refrigeration engineers with the tools they need to apply their expertise to real proactive maintenance, keeping consumers safe and businesses efficient. 

Learn more about our cold chain solutions here. 

Until next year!