JOHNSON CONTROLS
How Johnson Controls is breaking new ground in the data centre industry With market dynamics accelerating demand for data centre infrastructure, cloud computing giants are scaling globally at an unprecedented pace. This rapid expansion is driving the need for facilities that deliver exceptional reliability and performance.
In response, Johnson Controls has structured its strategy around three foundational pillars:
• Innovation – fueling breakthrough product development to meet evolving technical demand
• Scalability – enabling global manufacturing capacity to support rapid deployment
• Consistency – ensuring uniform performance and quality across all regions
“ We meaningfully want to participate in this market, drive this market and support this customer set,” says Austin Domenici, Vice President and General Manager of GDCS at Johnson Controls.“ We don’ t want to launch anything that we can’ t do at quality or at scale so our customers can really trust what we’ re doing.”
To realise its strategic ambitions, Johnson Controls has made significant investments – particularly in thermal innovation. At its specialised Johnson Controls Advanced Development Engineering Center( JADEC) testing
“We meaningfully want to participate in this market, drive this market and support this customer set”
AUSTIN DOMENICI, VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER OF GDCS, JOHNSON CONTROLS
facility in Pennsylvania, the company is rigorously evaluating equipment under extreme conditions to accelerate advancements in data centre technologies.
“ It’ s a one-of-a-kind testing laboratory for chillers, for air handlers and most importantly their sub components,” explains Mihir Nandkeolyar, Business Development and Technology Strategy Manager Thermal Management at Johnson Controls.“ It gives us the ability to test equipment across the full assembly to really understand the performance of the individual components in all sorts of unique applications within a data centre context.
“ The ability for us to do that helps us rapidly innovate because we now know when something changes on a customer’ s side, we know what component we need to change and can rapidly deploy that instead.”
Traditional product development cycles previously stretched three to
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