Master electrician Mike Wiruth at the Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, NE, saw the “handwriting on the wall”... and on spreadsheets, and he wanted to do something about it.
He saw that the center's monitoring and control requirements for its power distribution system had outgrown its current capabilities. Too much of the data gathered during monthly tests of the center's emergency system power for Joint Commission and local fire marshal inspections had to be entered on spreadsheets and collected from multiple sources. The process took too much time and was an opportunity for human error to creep into results.