Meeting in person is a critical activity for PPI as they aim to educate personnel and advance the plastic pipe industry. COVID-19 halted all face-to-face gathering as early as March 2020 and did immense harm to PPI’s goals. As members grew fatigued of video calls and webinar attendance dropped, PPI leadership knew that getting back to in-person meetings was a must, and they had to do it the right way to ensure that guests are kept safe. Leadership began the monumental task of re-vamping in-person meetings for their members in time for their annual fall conference with an anticipated attendance of over 150 people. Easy-to-implement solutions included encouraging social distancing and mask wearing, but the organization’s biggest challenge proved to be deciding on an accurate, touchless temperature screening solution.

IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit Reduces Spread of Illness at In-Person Meetings

PPI considered two options for temperature screening: one that measures skin surface temperature, and IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit, which measures temperature at the tear duct. Upon further research, PPI learned that the dual-camera thermography offered by IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit is the superior choice because measuring temperature at the tear duct, as opposed to screening overall skin temperature, has a greater correlation with a person’s core body temperature.

Due to their location in Texas, PPI was able to consult with Invixium on-site to design two entry points around the Invixium solution. During visitor check-in, IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit quickly screens each person’s temperature to ensure that no one showing signs of illness is admitted to the conference. Invixium further assisted PPI by customizing audio and visual feedback on IXM TITAN’s 5.0” LCD screen with PPI and event branding that offers guests a seamless look and feel while allowing admissions personnel to social distance from potentially-ill guests. By relying on IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit to keep staff and guests healthy, PPI is able to focus on a safe, productive return to the in-person meetings that drive their business.

The benefits of automating temperature screening during the visitor check-in process for PPI include:

• High Accuracy, Touchless Temperature Measurement:Invixium’s unique dual camera thermography that focuses on the tear duct offers greater accuracy than heat-sensing cameras or thermal guns. The tear duct is the skin surface location with the highest correlation to core body temperature with the lowest risk of being impacted by ambient temperature.
• High Visitor Screening Speeds:The Invixium solution boasts a screening speed of 12 to 15 people per minute which enables PPI to keep admissions lines moving for its 150 attendees per day. Keeping these lines moving promotes social distancing and a positive guest experience overall by allowing visitors to quickly check in and move to their destination.
• Hands-On Support: On-site, customized support from Invixium helped PPI design their entrances around IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit for convenient visitor screening, easier social distancing, and increased staff and guest confidence.

“We felt that the overall quality of the Invixium product, specifically the tear duct-based temperature screening, met our high standards for member safety,” said David Fink, President at Plastics Pipe Institute. “We’re really impressed with the temperature screening from IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit as well as the potential for IXM TITAN to be an all-in-one solution for touchless, automated access control or time tracking that could benefit a variety of businesses. I think any organization could benefit greatly from working with Invixium.”

For more information, visit:
www.invixium.com
www.plasticpipe.org

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When the COVID-19 outbreak took hold in the United States in March of 2020, PPG took swift action by hiring additional security professionals to screen employee temperatures before entering their chemical plant. PPG hired multiple professionals to accommodate the thousands of employees that enter and exit this plant every day, costing PPG up to US$40,000 monthly just to manually screen employee temperatures before they gained access via a card-based turnstile system. Management at PPG saw a clear need: integrating automated temperature screening with their access control system would save them hundreds of thousands year over year.

Automated Temperature Screening Protects Staff And Stays Under Budget

PPG reached out to Louisiana Radio Communications (LRC Wireless), a system integrator in the Southeast United States with expertise in chemical plant security. As the plant was already using OnGuard® by LenelS2 for access control, integration of temperature screening with the access control system was a key quality-of-life feature management wanted. Enter Invixium: a premier manufacturer of healthy access solutions and an OAAP partner of LenelS2. LRC Wireless proposed IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit to PPG for its automated functionality, integration with LenelS2 for access control and because rapid automation keeps shift changes fast while saving nearly US$500,000 in staffing costs compared to manual temperature screening solutions.

PPG’s benefits of automating their temperature screening with IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit include:

• Budget Savings: Automating security solutions creates budget savings that can be re-allocated to other department or business needs
• Faster Shift Changes: Automation also keeps shift changes moving faster than they would with manual temperature measurement. A shift change that might take an hour now takes minutes!
• Healthy Access Audit Trail: Temperature screening integrated with access control software like OnGuard allows managers to keep a record of screening events so they know when someone screens with an elevated body temperature – and can then take appropriate preventive actions

“Businesses must accept that the need for healthy access is here to stay,” said Shiraz Kapadia, CEO & President at Invixium. “Leaders like PPG know it is their responsibility to assure staff that everyone around them is healthy and they are not at risk of illness. Our solution achieves this in a way that is fast and accurate while also minimizing security costs by automating the entire process. The results of this installation and cost savings are proof that automated health screening is the future of healthy access.”

“Invixium offers a portfolio of really impressive products. These are exciting, relevant solutions that LRC is proud to offer customers like PPG who need a modern solution to a problem we couldn’t even imagine having two years ago. Working with Invixium, LenelS2 and PPG’s in-house team, we were able to create a system that met every need PPG had,” said Jacob Brown, Sales Executive at LRC Wireless.

For more information, visit:
www.invixium.com
www.lrcwireless.com
www.ppg.com

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