The Disney Approach to Energy-Management Systems: How Walt Disney Parks and Resorts successfully bucks the multivendor 'interoperability' trend

摘要

Although maintaining a competitive procurement process with only one energy-management-system (EMS) vendor may sound impossible, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts' approach to EMS, which standardizes one manufacturer's system, is proof that it is not. The ability to design, install, program, create graphics for, and continuously improve an EMS in house is important to Disney. With its unique approach to EMS, it has that, along with training, spare-parts, and software-license costs lower than they otherwise would be. There are no surprises, and in the end, everything works. This article will examine Disney's approach to designing, installing, and operating EMS.