When a tornado swept across the Midwest, it left a trail of destruction, damaging infrastructure, downing power lines, and halting operations at a major refinery. With product lines solidified due to a total power loss, the facility urgently needed emergency heat treatment support to evacuate material and resume operations.
That’s when Superheat was called in for a rapid response. Within hours, our team mobilized to the site with 15 technicians and quickly scaled operations to over 65 heating machines running across the facility. But the real game-changer came from the use of the Superheat SmartCenter™, our proprietary remote control and monitoring hub.
Once the heat cycles were up and running, the SmartCenter enabled us to reduce on-site staffing from over 20 technicians per shift to just 5, saving the client numerous labor hours while continuing to monitor the equipment 24/7 without interruption.
By reducing manpower, we not only lowered overall costs but also decreased safety exposure, helping our client recover operations more quickly and efficiently. The success of this project has already led to discussions for future planned work at the refinery.
This is the Superheat SmartWay™ in action, combining advanced technology, experience, and rapid deployment to solve complex heat treatment challenges under pressure.
🎥 Watch Episode 3 of our Innovation in Action series to see how we helped turn disaster recovery into an opportunity for smarter, safer, heat treatment execution.
