The winsted company was selected for the implementation of the project of the Monitoring and Control Center of the Free Zone America in Heredia in Costa Rica. A project that due to its characteristics is worth highlighting.
By SECURITY SALES
A Free Trade Area is a sector designated by government regulation for the manufacture of goods with raw materials from abroad but whose final product must be re-exported due to its condition of landing and temporary storage; this without the need to go through customs or pay import or export duties.
In recent years in Costa Rica, Free Trade Zones have proliferated under a series of tax benefits granted by the Government of the Republic and that guarantee more advantageous conditions of design, manufacture, assembly and final distribution to customers around the world. Transnational companies have seen in this modality an instrument of competitive advantage in current markets, so they have also transferred this system to the shared services of their large corporations, also establishing in the country large service centers located in these business parks.
AFZ is one of these parks, privately owned, located just 20 minutes from downtown San Jose, but immersed in the area of greatest convergence of import and export routes in the country. AfZ's established clients include: Teradyne, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Dell, among others; employing more than 8,000 people in its facilities.
The AFZ Monitoring and Control Center project was identified as a requirement on the part of the owners and management, given the vertiginous growth of their operations and the imminent need to provide added value to the already high standards of service they were offering to their customers.
Given this scenario, its engineering department together with one of its distributors of systems and equipment, International Security and Trading Corp. (ISTC), contact Winsted Corporation through the Sales Manager Noel González and his representative for the Central America area the architect Ronny Morris, who assists them by designing the project based on the description of the identified requirements, the space available and using one of the product lines that Winsted has for these applications.
The AFZ Monitoring and Control Center presented special conditions that required to be properly managed to achieve the maximum use of its potential while the final product designed responded positively to the level of demand presented in the diagrams of operation of the systems and the flow of information from the sources.
It is in this way that the design begins by presenting on site a provision of four operators on a first monitoring line and two supervisors on the second line; both with the same number of monitors per operator. The Winsted Sight Line model is used, belonging to the Prestige console series, which in addition to being ergonomic and adaptable, give the user the flexibility of locating the monitors of the console by the Versa track system and have a large space inside that favors the stage given the requirement to house the equipment within the same console, being that these should be in the sight and within reach of the supervisors in their daily work role.
The number and dimension of the monitors in the console, the peripheral equipment and their location, the user's work tools, the operator's visual to the projection devices and the total ergonomics of the set were taken into consideration. Both the end user and the owners and administrators of the different systems were involved in this phase of the project, to ensure that they did not leave out a single detail in the creation of the final product.
The final design proposal also involved the installation in the room of a video wall in LED cubes, the highest technology available today in the display systems market.
For this we had the collaboration of Mitsubishi Electric, who designed a Data Wall composed of 30 DLP projection cubes of 55 "each, this being the largest wall installed so far in the country. This wall located along the front wall of the room becomes the main focal point and important part of the total configuration of the AFZ Monitoring and Control Center.
The orientation of the monitoring consoles are then oriented to this point and the location of the equipment and systems in the bodies of the console, are facilitated by the ability of Sight Line to house them and distribute their communication connections through their ducts.
The process of assembling the final configuration of the monitoring console was carried out by AFZ staff, under the supervision of the Winsted representative. This situation demonstrated to the customer the ease with which the modulation system of the components of the Sight Line consoles is arranged and orderly; obeying a meticulous design and an instruction of easy handling and understanding.
From the placement of the main metal frame, to the internal equipment with the service devices and the final finish with the work and side envelopes; they were carefully carried out by the operators, without this implying a deep anticipated study of the assembly process. The subsequent installation of the equipment and systems in the consoles was facilitated after the recognition of the benefits of the selected model to locate, reconfigure or adapt these components to its structure.
Upon completion, the client obtained in its facilities a Control Center of the highest level; with the most complete standards and according to your needs. Its commissioning took place almost immediately, supervising and controlling more than 200 cameras both in the business park and on the sites of the other sister companies of the group.
Today they are the spearhead in the field of monitoring, having the most modern and ergonomically designed facility for the performance of their functions. For more information about this project or information about Winsted, please contact Noel Gonzalez, Sales Manager Latin America.
*If you would like more information or more details about this project, contact Winsted Corporation (10901 Hampshire Ave So, Minneapolis, MN 55438) at +1 (757) 430-0916, via email [email protected] or website www.winsted.com
