Dow Chemical Company in Stade, Germany
producer of fire alarm system technology. Over time, the entire fire alarm system has been overhauled, stabilised and optimised. Together the partners have managed to reduce the false alarm rate by 50% [...] 50%. At the same time, more real fires are reliably detected by the fire alarm system. Fires that once would have led to a total production shutdown can now be extinguished in their very earliest phases. [...] forgetting to install a dust cap, that cause a detector to issue a false alarm,” explains Sven Brünjes, Head of the on-site fire brigade of the Dow Chemical Company in Stade, Germany. He is in discussion