Johnson Controls successfully transformed its siloed EHS management activities into a globally integrated program
Johnson Controls is a world leader in smart buildings, creating safe, healthy and sustainable spaces
With headquarters in Milwaukee, WI, in 3,500 locations and with over 101,000 employees, for nearly 140 years they've made buildings better.
They use artificial intelligence and data driven solutions to give a deeper insight into a building’s health, sustainability and performance.
They deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, hotels and manufacturing.
The challenge
With a stated objective to build safer, efficient, customer-driven, and technologically advanced offices of the future, Johnson Control International (JCI) needed a comprehensive and integrated system that boosts its process standardization and global regulatory compliance.
Empowered with ideagen’s market-leading EHS solutions, the company successfully transformed siloed EHS management activities into a globally integrated program that drove excellence in EHS practices as well as business productivity.
The challenge
With a stated objective to build safer, efficient, customer-driven, and technologically advanced offices of the future, Johnson Control International (JCI) needed a comprehensive and integrated system that boosts its process standardization and global regulatory compliance.
Empowered with ideagen’s market-leading EHS solutions, the company successfully transformed siloed EHS management activities into a globally integrated program that drove excellence in EHS practices as well as business productivity.
Situation analysis and drivers for change
As a global company with operations across multiple countries, JCI faced a fundamental challenge of maintaining standard processes and global compliance across the enterprise.
To overcome the inefficiencies and workarounds enforced by a siloed approach to EHS data management, JCI identified the need for a scalable enterprise-grade EHS platform.
Additionally, to accelerate its efforts to meet organizational EHS and Sustainability goals, JCI realized that it was time to replace the existing EHS systems that had been in use for many years.
Situation analysis and drivers for change
As a global company with operations across multiple countries, JCI faced a fundamental challenge of maintaining standard processes and global compliance across the enterprise.
To overcome the inefficiencies and workarounds enforced by a siloed approach to EHS data management, JCI identified the need for a scalable enterprise-grade EHS platform.
Additionally, to accelerate its efforts to meet organizational EHS and Sustainability goals, JCI realized that it was time to replace the existing EHS systems that had been in use for many years.
With over 3,200 sites across 74 countries, process standardization and maintaining global compliance were critical challenges. Through its partnership with Ideagen, the company successfully transformed it’s siloed EHS management activities into a global integrated program that enables excellence in both EHS practices and business productivity
Drivers for selecting Ideagen EHS
JCI had an exhaustive set of selection criteria to partner with an EHS software provider.
The company ultimately selected Ideagen for its commitment to customer success, experience with large global organizations, and going live rapidly while still delivering results.
Furthermore, some of the key platform capabilities that helped with the selection process include:
- Real-time data intelligence
- Highly configurable for multiple countries
- Native multilingual capabilities
- Last mile and mobile first apps
Key results & accomplishments
Ideagen EHS implementation approach and solution
By leveraging Ideagen EHS’s proprietary LADDER™ methodology, the team understood JCI’s unique business challenges & priority-requirements to deploy an easy-to-use system across all sites.
In a phase-wise approach, Ideagen implemented more than 8 solution modules and more than 10 complex integrations within the stipulated time and budget.
Based on the strong results observed after the initial roll-out of the Ideagen EHS, JCI expanded the solution footprint to include various additional modules, integrations, geo-locations, and business units.
The comprehensive EHS solution was implemented in 2014 across multiple locations to achieve excellence in safety & sustainability operations.
• Integrated Incident Management
• Integrated Audits Management
• Calendar & Task Management
• Occupational Health Management
• Sustainability Performance Management
• Industrial Hygiene Management
• Risk Assessment & Permits Management
• Behavior-based Safety
• Event Management
• Training Management
• Mobility & Insight Analytics Platform
Conclusion
JCI aims to redefine its EHS management system’s efficiency and efficacy with standardized data, centralized access to dynamic dashboards, mobile-ready solutions and overall organizational readiness for change management.
The systematic roll-out of the solution facilitated widespread user adoption and engagement.
By adopting Ideagen’s market-leading EHS system, JCI has raised the bar higher not only for its EHS performance, but also for its overarching operational performance
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