OCEM Airfield’s latest generation of single and three phase power solutions with the name DIAM 5 will be launched shortly and we thought this to be a great occasion to understand why the DIAM series of CCRs is the ideal power solution for today’s airports focused on sustainability.

The Augier DIAM CCRs have been around for several decades and have become the preferred power solution for many of the best airports around the world, including Aéroports de Paris, London City Airport, Hong Kong International or Mexico City Santa Lucia to name but a few.

There is a reason why the DIAM has proven to be very popular and quality is one of them, another one is that unlike many other brands, OCEM Airfield/Augier sticks to the concept of uniformity.

This means that one of the key prerequisites when developing products is that what has been installed previously will not be impacted by any new implementation and that new solutions can fit to the older generation of CCRs so that retrofitting is really possible.

This is a key element when wanting to keep production simple as many components (if not most) are interchangeable which has an important impact as well on the maintenance of  CCRs at airports. Examples of these interchangeable components are the CCR Interface Communication Board or the CCR mainboard, that is similar for all CCRs.

Besides creating open interfaces in all products allowing for an easy integration of all products in standardized solutions – no matter what brand – there is also a standardized architecture for the entire OCEM Airfield CCR range.

This re-use has considerable benefits when thinking of implementing an airport wide sustainability strategy, since a new CCR model doesn’t necessarily mean throwing away old stocks of spare parts and that in turn means less consumption of spare parts as the re-use is maximized leading to a far more environmental friendly approach than any other solution around.

See it as an ecosystem of devices that works closely together no matter their age, whatever device gets added, it works with the other installed devices benefiting from the interchangeability of components on all levels.

When the same hard and software works on all similar devices than the complexity gets reduced substantially which means less training, less mistakes and far less waste of components since all of them have been made interchangeable.

Facilitating innovation   

Innovation doesn’t equal throwing away older components. OCEM Airfield believes that you can be very innovative by re-using most of the materials that are part of what was sold previously.

• Making the transition to the latest generation of CCRs simple, whatever the CCR, a majority of components are similar which is not only very sustainable but also very cost effective.
• Standardization and re-use is key when further improving CCRs, if possible components will be re-used, leading to a far easier management of the installed base.
• Compatibility throughout the range is a game changer, you buy one CCR and the next one will share most of the same components which is not only saving a lot of money but also helps with regards to safety since users are familiar with how the CCR works and training is very straightforward.

A major advantage in every sense

In most instances companies develop products that are in 90% of the cases different from their previous product so compatibility is non existing and a retrofit is just a far-away dream.

This is a very expensive exercise when every new solution doesn’t use components of the former solution nor does it share a common philosophy.

On top of this, many companies have a large number of CCRs making it even more difficult to manage the full spare parts process and train people on such a wide variety of CCRs.

This has as a consequence that airports will at one point in time need to renovate large parts of their set up and thus have to dispose of what they currently have as older CCR’s which are no longer re-usable.

In our day and age such a philosophy is no longer acceptable, airports are focusing on sustainability and this means limiting waste that is generated by any new implementation.

At the end it will cost them more to dispose of heavy machinery that no one is particular keen on buying.

At OCEM Airfield simplicity meets innovation which helps the airport team with its environmental footprint but also reduces mistakes as the topology is similar between CCRs making it easy for maintenance staff to get trained on and avoid mistakes in upgrading, maintaining or simply the daily use.

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