Energy Monitoring and Targeting
Energy Monitoring and Targeting(EM&T) is essential for industries and commercial buildings.
- It is globally proven that energy monitoring alone leads to a significant amount of savings. Energy information is the first building block for energy management and provides insights to target the wastage. The success of any energy management strategy relies on how accurately and efficiently energy data is captured. It is also very important to understand that EM&T is a continuous process and has to be done iteratively to reap the benefits of energy efficiency.
- Given below are 7 major steps in EM&T and how we can enable an industry to implement them.
- Data is collected from all devices (Energy Meter, VFD, etc.) in a process at regular intervals. The data frequency varies on the resolution of the desired report. This is the first and most important step in EM&T. However, this is a very cumbersome task and often dedicated resources are assigned to achieve this. Manually doing this may get out of hand easily in a medium-sized factory or even when the recorded variable is a fluctuating one (e.g., Current).
- To avoid this large overhead, common practice is to use the OEM’s software to collect data. Factories having devices from different OEMs buy licenses for multiple software. In this case, data has to be collected from all the software and then recorded. On top of that, buying multiple of these software can become a cost-intensive task.
- Enture takes care of all these problems. It is capable of connecting across OEM devices (Energy Meters, VFDs, etc.). The collection, processing, and storage of data is completely handled by it. All of the devices can be integrated and viewed from one dashboard making it simple and easy.
- The recorded data is structured to build time-based trends and identify parameter relationships. This is required to get a clear picture of the current process and understanding how the variables in a process depend on one another.
- Analyzing the recorded data can become daunting once the amount of data increases. It often takes up a lot of effort to structure and page through the enormous amount of data.
- Enture helps you achieve all these as it automatically structures the data and runs analytics on it.
- Enture enables easy understanding of the relationship amongst the parameters by giving relationship trend graphs, and also helps to understand the energy requirement with Time of Day, specific energy consumption, etc.
- The recorded and analyzed results are compared to a baseline to find variance. The baseline is often derived by identifying the best-fit line on the production-consumption graphs.
- The ideal state or the baseline is defined by energy consumption data as well as independent variable data (weather, facility occupancy, etc.).
- Variance can also be identified by comparing consumption on processes/machines with similar workloads or with historical data.
- Enture eases the entire process by enabling you to plot consumption graphs, compare the energy usage with historical data, and provides structured data for usage.
- The causes of variance are identified by energy efficiency specialists in collaboration with building managers. With the causes and usage/consumption data, realistic targets are set to reduce energy usage and cut down wastage.
- A good place to start setting targets is the best-fit line (as mentioned in step 3). Predictive maintenance can also be done by identifying variance with historical data and parameters such as runtime.
- Targeting includes how much consumption can be reduced and the timeframe to achieve the same. These are often driven by management’s energy-saving goals.
- Enture provides all the tools at your disposal to help in setting the targets and adhering to them.
- Energy Monitoring and Targeting is a continuous process and requires constant monitoring to measure consumption and ensure process behavior aligns with the set targets.
- This step ensures that everything is going according to plan.
- With Enture, you can monitor every parameter of every device in a factory in real-time and understand the process behavior with time-based trends.
- The monitored data is analyzed to find any variances from the set targets. Reporting these findings and usage trends is essential for management to understand the success or failure of their targets.
- Enture simplifies reporting by allowing the generation of custom trends and reports on any targeted process/device.
- It also auto-generates reports and sends them over email for regular and automated communication.
- If a variance is detected in reports, corrective actions are taken to fix it. Anomalies are resolved by adjusting variables in a process, often machine-related parameters.
- Variances can be caused by environmental reasons, and they must be addressed quickly.
- Enture allows you to remotely update any parameter on your devices (e.g., VFD, VRS, etc.), aligning operations with targets more efficiently.
- 1. Energy cost savings, typically 5 to 15% as a direct consequence of the EM&T program, along with reductions in emissions of CO₂ and other pollutants.
- 2. Better coordination and implementation of energy management policy, through targeting of initiatives that achieve the maximum benefit and sustaining savings over the long term.
- 3. Preventative maintenance by increasing the availability of energy data.
- 4. With an understanding of energy usage data, process workloads can be distributed for better performance.
- 5. Improved budgeting by providing a basis for a more accurate projection of future energy costs.
How OEE Software Can Be Customized for Different Types of Manufacturing Equipment
Customizing OEE software for various manufacturing equipment involves tailoring its features, integrations, and data processing capabilities to suit the unique requirements of specific equipment types and manufacturing processes...
How can OEE software automate data collection from different machines
OEE software automates data collection from different machines by leveraging advanced technologies and standardized protocols to ensure seamless and accurate data acquisition...
How OEE Differs Across Various Industries
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a versatile metric, but its application and benchmarks vary significantly across industries due to differences in operational processes, equipment types, and industry-specific challenges...
Common Challenges in Implementing OEE Metrics
Implementing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics can be transformative for manufacturing efficiency, but it comes with several challenges...
How can OEE be used to improve manufacturing efficiency
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) can significantly improve manufacturing efficiency by identifying inefficiencies, reducing waste, and optimizing production processes...
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a standard metric used to evaluate the efficiency and productivity...
Challenges of Ageing OnPremise Energy Monitoring Systems
Energy management has become more critical in today's fast-paced industrial and commercial environments...
Unlocking Predictive Maintenance A Deep Dive into Energy Usage Analysis
In today's fast-paced world, where energy consumption directly correlates with operational efficiency...
Cybersecurity in Digitized Factories: Protecting the Future of Manufacturing
As factories worldwide embrace digital transformation, they become increasingly connected and automated...
Energy Monitoring & Savings: Harnessing Insights
In an era where sustainability has become a keystone for responsible living and environmental stewardship...
Maximizing Building Efficiency: Navigating the Essentials of EPI
Energy efficiency is crucial in today's built environment, not just for cost savings but also for environmental sustainability...
The High Cost of Manual Monitoring: Manufacturers Need Real-Time Data Solutions
In today's rapidly advancing world, 99% of factories and large commercial buildings ...
Industry 4.0: The Technological Ally in Achieving Net Zero Goals
The industrial sector is a significant contributor to worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
Leveraging IIoT for Enhanced Sustainability Metrics in Manufacturing
Sustainability has become a vital part of the contemporary manufacturing industry. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)...
Navigating the Path to Net Zero: Harnessing Digitization for Sustainable Transformation
As the world grapples with the urgency of climate change, the concept of achieving net zero emissions...
Harnessing the Power of IIoT and Digitization in Shaping Future Organization Strategies
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is revolutionizing how businesses operate, offering unprecedented...
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism aims to mitigate carbon leakage by imposing a carbon price on ...
PAT Scheme
The National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE) is one of the eight missions under the National ...
IIoT for MSME
In the era of Industry 4.0, technological advancements are transforming the way businesses operate...
HVAC Monitoring
In today's world, where we are more and more aware of energy usage, the way we manage our HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) ...
Sustainability Certifications and Digitization
India is aiming to be Net Zero by 2070, Government of India has a huge push towards “Green Growth” by providing a budget of INR 35,000 cr...
ESG Reporting
Environmental, Social and Governance or ESG, are a set of data and principles used to evaluate how an organization’s behavior is impacting society and the environment, and the standards to which it is governed...
Indoor Air Quality
On average, a person spends 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, roughly 10.2 years. And in the hustle and bustle of work, it's easy to take the air we breathe in our indoor spaces' comfort for granted...
VFD Monitoring
Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) monitoring is a crucial aspect of industrial and commercial where electric motors are widely used. VFDs devices control the speed & torque of electric motors by varying the frequency and voltage...
Securing the Digital Landscape of Industry 4.0
The world has been rapidly shifting towards digitalization & automation with the advent of Industry 4.0.
Roadmap for Factory & Building Digitization
For factory and building digitization, outlining the essential steps to successfully implement Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions for energy management, data-driven maintenance strategies, and overall efficiency...
Digital transformation in manufacturing
Digital transformation in manufacturing is the process of integrating digital technologies into all areas of a manufacturing company’s operations and processes to drive more efficient production, reduce costs
Unleashing the Power of Industry 4.0, IoT, and Digitization
By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, optimize power quality, enhance energy efficiency, streamline management tasks, drive strategic decision-making...
The OT and IT Integeration - Industry 4.0
IIoT enables monitoring of OTs and machinery through the OTs. IIoT. Once the operation, energy, and production data are available, predictive maintenance are implemented to drive efficiency...
Digitization, Industry4.0 and Predictive Maintenance
IIoT-based predictive maintenance utilizes historical data to make accurate predictions about asset health, utilization, performance, enabling organizations to take action based on this information and data...
How to implement digitization project successfully?
Digitization is an opportunity to transform your operations to solve your top challenges and meet your business goals; it is not just about upgrading production technology to reduce downtime risks...
OEE for Pharma Industry
India has the highest number of US-FDA compliant Pharma plants outside of the USA and is home to more than 3,000 pharma companies with a strong network of over 10,500 manufacturing facilities...
Big bill for bill chill
With better access to data, one can clearly see when their chillers are costing them the most to operate. As well as seeing what is happening, access to data allows the owners of chiller units to detect potential faults...
HVAC Monitoring for Systems Integerators Contractors and Domain Experts
Using the IoT to monitor and record HVAC systems helps manufacturers, contractors, system integrators, domain experts, and end-users improve energy efficiency...
Edge Computing - An essential pillar for Industry 4.0
Edge Computing serves as the bridge to connect the operation technology & the information technology. Top reasons why deploying edge computing is essential for I4.0 or digitization...
Tips to implement Digitization
The main objective of digitizing factories is to enhance operational visibility with all stakeholders, optimize resource efficiency and productivity, and, ultimately, build better quality products with less cost...
IIoT/I4.0 and Security: Why should you focus on Security?
With the evolution of The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or I4.0, manufacturers will have networks of connected industrial devices working together to monitor...
Importance Of Measuring Power Quality
Power quality monitoring is similar to energy monitoring in which they measure voltage and current. There are much higher processing and computational requirements in order to detect, capture, and measure power quality...
Energy Monitoring is primarily a management technique
Energy monitoring and targeting is an approach in energy management to eliminate waste, reduce current level of energy use and optimize existing operation efficiency...
Industry 4.0 for Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs)
In a highly competitive market, the greatest challenge for all MSMEs is to address the needs of the end customer, while keeping costs down...
IoT and Predictive Maintenance - Make Your Buildings Energy Efficient
IoT enabled predictive maintenance strategies apart from preventing unexpected equipment failures can also improve the energy efficiency.
Industry 4.0 & Digitization for efficiency
Digitization transforms business processes to drive profitability and efficiency. It ensures higher efficiency, lower operating costs, and better control of business operations for the companies...
Dont Ignore Benchmarking
Energy monitoring has become one of the prime focus areas for almost all facilities across various sectors these days; implementing few energy-saving projects, realises the cost savings...
What are sustainable development goals and why it is important for humanity and mother earth?
According to the UN, The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world’s shared plan to end severe poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet by 2030...
SCADA and IoT EMS
SCADA is an automation software & works with a short span of dense data for reliable operation. It consists of programmable control logic & is designed to achieve very advance...
ROI for Smart Energy Monitoring Systems
For any energy-saving project to go through, ROI is the key, the same applies to deploying smart energy management systems; ROI depends on a smarter way of configuring...
Industry 4.0 and How to implement it
Implementing Industry 4.0 into MSMEs can directly result in increased competitiveness with much bigger firms, improved productivity, better operational IT, cost reduction...
Energy Monitoring and Targeting
Energy Monitoring & Targeting(EM&T) is essential for industries & commercial buildings. It's globally proven energy monitoring alone leads to a significant amount of savings...
IoT Energy Management
Energy management is the process to plan & manage energy consumption in buildings. Monitoring energy data across the whole organization at a regular interval is a daunting task...
Specific Energy Consumption Report and Energy Monitoring Benefits
Energy Management System enables your facility and finance teams to identify excess energy use and empowers them to resolve the issue and save money...
Steps to revive MSMEs in the current times and build a turbulence-proof business (using DIP Strategy)
The main objective of digitizing factories is to enhance operational visibility with all stakeholders, optimize resource efficiency, productivity build with less cost...
How is NEBESKIE LABS redefining the Electricity Management & helping reduce electricity wastage for businesses in India?
The world is moving ahead with a vision to build sustainable cities of the future using advanced technologies...