Coca-Cola Swaziland uses Wonderware Solutions to Optimize Energy Usage and Reduce Costs

Recognizing the need for an effective energy management strategy, Coca-Cola Swaziland (Conco Ltd.) decided to investigate further and what they found surprised everyone.

While there are many definitions for energy management, they mostly focus on two aspects; maximizing profits or minimizing costs through lower energy consumption. However, it’s rare to see actual practical examples of how one actually goes about achieving these desirable goals and that’s because the solution is a great deal more complex than switching off something when it’s not in use.

Coca-Cola Swaziland  selected a range of software solutions from the Invensys Wonderware stable to help them manage energy consumption and costs. These solutions included the System Platform based on ArchestrA technology, Historian and Client, InTouch SCADA / HMI, Information Server, SmartGlance for mobile reporting and Wonderware’s Corporate Energy Management (CEM) package.
Read the entire story of their success here.

Repost, with comments: Empowering Shop-Floor Leaders to Optimize Energy Performance [DATA]

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Energy management is a key component in optimizing the performance of your operations, as well as reducing the total cost of producing products.  Real-time energy management allows you to be more proactive and responsive to conditions that are out of norm, as well as to refine and improve consumption and compliance.

Wonderware understands the importance of energy management, and brought out two years ago its application, Corporate Energy Management.  Built on the real-time data platform of System Platform, CEM allows users to view real-time energy utilization, fed by a variety of meters and profiled in an interactive display.  It supports and reinforces corporate initiatives for #sustainability, compliance, and green initiatives.

Energy management: crunching the numbers

Energy management: crunching the numbers | 2013-05-10 | Food Engineering

 

 

Energy Management, as covered by Invensys VP of Solutions Niels Andersen, is a concern not only from a sustainability perspective, but from a cost management perspective for food companies. This article, originally published in Food Engineering, talks about measures companies can put in place to understand, and measure, actual consumption and loss.

Early Findings in LNS’s Industrial Energy Management Research

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Energy Management has shown to be a powerful method of not only controlling and managing your costs, but in maintaining your sustainability initiatives for reducing energy consumption and pinpointing areas of waste.  This was Invensys' primary driver for developing its Corporate Energy Management application, using System Platform as its foundation, and directly connecting to meters to capture real-time consumption of resources, be it water, steam, power, etc.

This referenced study by LNS provides an independent, third party view of why companies should concentrate on energy management.

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Ever wonder how you can get more efficiencies from your Manufacturing Execution Systems?  How energy management can be a fully integrated tool in your control strategy?  Or, if you have invested in ArchestrA System Platform from Wonderware, how you can take alarm/event management to the next level?

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“Of one thing we can be sure: energy will be more challenging and more important in the future. Will you, and your business, be ready?”— Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network

According to  Energy Star,  market trends suggest that the demand for energy resources will rise dramatically over the next 25 years:

• Global demand for all energy sources is forecast to grow by 57% over the next 25 years.
• U.S. demand for all types of energy is expected to increase by 31% within 25 years.
• By 2030, 56% of the world’s energy use will be in Asia.
• Electricity demand in the U.S. will grow by at least 40% by 2032.
• New power generation equal to nearly 300 (1,000MW) power plants will be needed to meet electricity demand by 2030.
• Currently, 50% of U.S. electrical generation relies on coal, a fossil fuel; while 85% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions result from energy-consuming activities supported by fossil fuels.