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FACILITY MAINTENANCE
ing the airports, getting more passengers
back traveling. "
Tennant at BWI
Thurgood Marshall
International Airport
At Baltimore/Washington International
Thurgood Marshall Airport
(BWI), Chimes staff are using eight
of Tennant's autonomous robots in
three different models that vary in
size: the T380AMR, T7AMR and
the T16AMR.
" Everyone knows when you're
robots has helped the Sunport to
achieve GBAC STAR accreditation.
" There's accreditation facilities
like GBAC, they're a subgroup of
the largest cleaning and sanitization
trade group, ISSA. They've selected
our products as part of established protocols
to get certified, " Ziomek said.
" They have a star rating, and some of
the airports we're in are using our
products to get their star accreditation. "
The Breezy One robots are currently
set up in the passenger spaces
and the secures spaces while Breezy
Blue products are being utilized in the
staff spaces.
" It's great to be keeping all the passengers
safe, but the staff are equally,
maybe more important in some cases,
because if they get ill, you're down
workers, " Ziomek said. " I guess the
way to think about it is that it really
is best practice, and it's a way for the
airport to show the traveling public
that they're doing everything to keep
them safe. So, they help with worker
safety certainly, but it also helped with
passenger confidence. So, it helped
keep the airports, keep passengers
feeling more safe when they're entertraveling,
you're with however many
thousands of your best friends that
you've never met, you don't know
where they are, and I think when
you see an airport investing in technology
around cleaning, it gives a lot
of people that peace of mind because
they're taking their cleaning seriously
by investing in the latest and greatest
technology, " said Tennant Senior
Product Line Category Manager
Dennis Collins. " So having a robot
running around is, I think, a major
mind easer. People are at different
comfort levels with travel right now,
and I think that is a great way that
airports have been able to address that. "
According to Tennant National
Strategic Account Manager Ryan
Fergus, the airport installed these
robots over three phases. First, they
installed the small and medium
size units. During the second phase,
another batch of small and medium
units were installed and during the
final phase two large industrial size
units were implemented.
Due to the number of robots
that were installed, Tennant worked
closely with the airport to map out
the regions that each robot would be
responsible for cleaning.
" So for us, from an implementation
standpoint, as I understand
it, this is the most AMR scrubbers
at any single customer location currently,
so we had to get very strategic
with where each machine was going
to be, so that involved working with
the customer and setting up different
zones throughout the airport, and
then essentially assigning robots from
the fleet to essentially " patrol " each
of those specific zones, " Fergus said.
" So, it really involved getting into an
overall mapping of the airport, cutting
it up into different subsections, and
then being able to assign the appropriate
robot to handle that section of
the airport. That was really some key
pre-work we had to do. "
The T380AMR is Tennant's smallest
autonomous cleaner, the T7AMR
is Tennant's medium size cleaner and
the T16AMR is the largest cleaner.
" Some are going to cover more
space because their scrub deck is bigger
and they're just bigger machines,
they have bigger water tanks, they're
going to have larger batteries, like our
T16AMR, it would be great in large
open concourses like the main stretches
of a concourse or even anywhere
that's a large open area, " Collins said.
" T7AMR is going to be smaller, it's
going to be a bit more maneuverable
and it's going to take tighter turns,
getting in between the rope lines
and potentially security. Then our
T380AMR is going to be really great
actually for the food court, even if the
chairs are there, depending on how
close the tables are to each other, and
then especially if there's hard floor and
the gates, a T3 could potentially go
around the benches as well. "
Collins added that safety is one,
two and three in terms of operational
concern.
" We want to make sure these products
are safe, and they are designed
to work around people, " Collins said.
" And so, we have redundancies and
sensors. Also, there's redundancies
in software, and so if anything were
to be going wrong, the default is for
the machine to say, 'Hey, something's
wrong, I need help'. We do rigorous
testing with every software update,
third-party testing, etc. "
Contract Administrator for Chimes
(operator of Tennant robots at BWI)
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of March-April 2023
Inside the Fence
Industry Update
Chicago Rockford to Expand Future Operations
The Intelligent Apron Becomes Reality
MKE Gate Management Goes Digital
How Technology Can Help Airports Maintain Safe Operations in Harsh Weather Conditions
Small Airports See Big Gains from Multitasking Equipment
More Airports Turn to Autonomous Cleaning Robots to Maintain Cleanliness
How Are Your Passenger Boarding Bridges Doing?
Denver Makes Room for Growth
How Technology is Changing Airport Operations
Airport Guru
Legal Matters
Passive Optical LAN Technology is Paving the Way for Airport Modernization and Sustainability
March-April 2023 - 1
March-April 2023 - 2
March-April 2023 - 3
March-April 2023 - 4
March-April 2023 - 5
March-April 2023 - Inside the Fence
March-April 2023 - 7
March-April 2023 - Industry Update
March-April 2023 - 9
March-April 2023 - 10
March-April 2023 - 11
March-April 2023 - Chicago Rockford to Expand Future Operations
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March-April 2023 - 15
March-April 2023 - The Intelligent Apron Becomes Reality
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March-April 2023 - MKE Gate Management Goes Digital
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March-April 2023 - How Technology Can Help Airports Maintain Safe Operations in Harsh Weather Conditions
March-April 2023 - 21
March-April 2023 - Small Airports See Big Gains from Multitasking Equipment
March-April 2023 - 23
March-April 2023 - More Airports Turn to Autonomous Cleaning Robots to Maintain Cleanliness
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March-April 2023 - How Are Your Passenger Boarding Bridges Doing?
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March-April 2023 - Denver Makes Room for Growth
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March-April 2023 - How Technology is Changing Airport Operations
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March-April 2023 - Airport Guru
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March-April 2023 - Legal Matters
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