San-I-Pak
San-I-Pak modernizes medical waste management with AVEVA solutions
Since 1978, San-I-Pak has designed medical waste treatment systems that allow hospitals to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint, with more than 500 installations deployed around the world. However, the company needed to provide detailed reports required by regulatory authorities, secure data access for customers and agencies, and intervene remotely and efficiently on equipment spread across several continents. With AVEVA System Platform and AVEVA Reports for Operations, San-I-Pak built the San-I-Pak Net platform hosted on Azure in a zero-trust architecture, as part of a remote industrial monitoring approach. Hospitals now share cycle reports with agencies in full transparency, and technicians diagnose units remotely in minutes rather than sending an expert on site. The benefits are both operational and environmental: significant savings for hospitals that can spend up to $10,000 a day on waste transportation, new sites deployed in under two hours, and a significantly reduced carbon footprint worldwide.
Integrated AVEVA software
AVEVA System Platform
San-I-Pak uses the AVEVA System Platform to centralize oversight of its medical waste handling operations. This unified platform enables efficient management of sterilization processes.
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AVEVA Reports for Operations
San-I-Pak uses AVEVA Reports for Operations to generate compliance reports on medical waste treatment. This solution facilitates regulatory documentation and the sharing of critical information.
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FAQ
How does AVEVA System Platform help hospitals treat medical waste on site?
Since 1978, San-I-Pak has designed medical waste treatment systems supervised by AVEVA System Platform and Reports for Operations, with more than 500 installations worldwide. The San-I-Pak Net platform, hosted on Azure in a zero trust architecture, enables hospitals to treat waste directly on site. This approach avoids off-site transport (saving up to $10,000 per day per hospital) and drastically reduces the carbon footprint associated with hazardous waste logistics.
Why is a zero trust architecture essential for medical waste monitoring?
Medical waste involves sensitive data (volumes processed, regulatory compliance, hospital traceability) that must be shared between the hospital, San-I-Pak and environmental agencies. The zero trust architecture deployed on Azure with AVEVA System Platform ensures that every access is authenticated, authorized and encrypted, with no implicit network trust. This level of security, now standard in healthcare, protects the confidentiality of information while providing the regulatory transparency required by the authorities.
How does AVEVA Reports for Operations facilitate regulatory compliance for medical waste?
AVEVA Reports for Operations automatically generates the detailed treatment cycle reports required by the authorities. Each sterilization cycle (temperature reached, duration, pressure, traceability) is documented in an auditable way. Hospitals now share these reports directly with environmental agencies in a few clicks, rather than through manual, time-consuming paper processes. This automation turns compliance from an administrative cost into value built into operations.
How can 500 installations around the world be serviced remotely?
With San-I-Pak Net, based on AVEVA System Platform, San-I-Pak technicians remotely diagnose units deployed in more than 500 hospitals worldwide. Rather than sending an expert on site (high cost and long delays), they analyze operating data, identify anomalies and guide local staff to resolve the problem in minutes. This remote maintenance revolutionizes the service model for a niche manufacturer present on every continent and dramatically improves the SLA for hospital customers.
How does AVEVA help reduce the healthcare sector's carbon footprint?
San-I-Pak, monitored by AVEVA System Platform, allows hospitals to avoid transporting medical waste and to deploy new sites in under two hours. Treated waste can then be sent for energy recovery, turning an environmental cost into a source of energy or fuel. For the hospital sector, under growing pressure to reduce its carbon footprint (healthcare accounts for nearly 5% of global emissions), this transformation is a major lever of environmental responsibility.