Energy Management
Sustainability and energy efficiency in production
Energy costs are high, resources are becoming scarcer, and climate change laws and regulations are constantly evolving. How can industrial enterprises today maintain their competitive edge and see sustainability as an opportunity? By implementing solutions that combine data transparency with specific recommendations for action. Effective resource management is essential, from production to the supply chain.
Discover more about our Sustainability solutions, and speak with our experts.
Overview
Make your company more sustainable and energy-efficient.
When energy prices are high, it becomes increasingly important for the power and resource consumption in your production facilities to be as transparent as possible, allowing you to manage load peaks that could otherwise lead to significant fines. Additionally, more customers, partners, and legislators are demanding verifiable proof of the carbon footprint of your products: can you manage it all?
Your path to improved sustainability and energy efficiency
A comprehensive approach to sustainable transformation prepares you for the future. First, you need an overview of your resources. Then, you can use data to define key performance indicators (KPIs) and identify areas for improvement. Combine this with solutions that efficiently manage and optimize consumption to ensure flexible use of resources and save costs. Finally, you must be able to safeguard and verify the decarbonization of infrastructure, processes, and products.
Resource transparency
To generate an optimal production schedule, you need a quick and clear overview of the loads in your plant. With increasing energy prices and sustainability requirements, it’s becoming more important to ensure that machine transparency is not just visible but also verifiable.
To achieve this transparency, you must be able to compare load data from all your machines and access this information within the company, regardless of the device. This enables you to calculate KPIs based on value-added consumption and production while tracking the effectiveness of energy efficiency measures.
Resource efficiency
Thanks to resource-efficient production, you can correlate different data with external influences. For instance, energy forecasting generates meaningful energy performance indicators from raw data to predict future consumption. This enables you to analyze the factors that influence power consumption.
Another example is tracking measures that document the resulting costs and improvements, while simultaneously reducing the number of tools needed for this task. Ever-stricter regulatory requirements and audits for certifications like ISO 50001 demand both transparency and traceability to ensure continuous improvement.
Resource flexibility
Effective resource management can ensure a quick response to rapidly changing customer and environmental requirements; for example, load peak management helps you reduce energy costs. By preventing peak loads, you’ll also minimize the fines you might incur from your power company.
The flexible deployment of generator sets also contributes to optimizing your plant’s power consumption. By utilizing self-generated energy and accurately planning your consumption, you’ll require less power from the grid. When the generator sets are automatically turned on and off, you can also lower the actual power limit.
Key advantages
Benefit from sustainability and energy efficiency in production.
Transparency
Compliance
Boosting energy and resource efficiency helps your company meet the expectations of customers, suppliers, and legislators. At the same time, you can control consumption so that you avoid load peaks in production.
Comparability
A user-friendly analysis of standardised measured values lets operators compare their machines’ performance with the effectiveness of energy-efficiency measures and continuously optimise both.
Flexibility
For your specific requirements, talk to us.
To see how we can help with your systems or if you have any enquiry, please get in touch – we’ll be pleased to help. Send us an email at support@parmley-graham.co.uk or fill the form below.
Solution
SIMATIC Energy Management Software
To reduce your energy costs, enhance your competitiveness, and comply with regulatory requirements, comprehensive energy management is crucial. To help you monitor company-wide energy consumption consistently, Siemens offers SIMATIC Energy Management, a complete, scalable ISO 50001-certified portfolio of products and solutions – ranging from energy data collection to energy analysis.
Scalable SIMATIC software for energy management
Scalable software solutions serving every need, from individual machines to plant-wide solutions – with SIMATIC, you can implement expandable energy management tailored to your requirements as they evolve. Systems can be designed quickly and easily while providing comprehensive analysis functions. Open interfaces give you the freedom for data input and forwarding, and the energy measurement modules of the SIMATIC Energy Meter offer an ideal foundation for collecting and recording data on any energy medium.
Production-related energy monitoring
SIMATIC Energy Management provides you with an easy way to equip your machinery and plants with a comprehensive solution for energy monitoring – from consumption measurement to detailed efficiency analysis based on the condition of the machine or plant.
Energy transparency in production – Manage the energy consumption of your plants
Prove the energy efficiency of your machines and plants in detail. Monitor the agreed capacity limits for electrical energy and avoid fines with load management. Simple and integrated into automation with SIMATIC Energy Suite and S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor
Simple and integrated energy management
SIMATIC Energy Suite
From the measurement of individual loads to detailed evaluation of the efficiency of entire machines, SIMATIC Energy Suite and the S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor bring the energy transparency to your automation system. In addition, you can use the load Management in Energy Suite to avoid the peak loads in industrial applications and to distribute loads evenly. The engineering integrated into TIA Portal supports you with simple implementation of production-level energy monitoring.
SIMATIC Energy Suite: Energy data acquisition generated automatically
SIMATIC Energy Suite, as an option for TIA Portal, efficiently links energy management with automation, thus creating energy transparency in the production system. The suite allows different types of energy data to be grouped, buffered, and visualised in a standard way. The considerably simplified configuration and automatic generation of the energy management program significantly reduce configuration costs. Thanks to the integrated interface to SIMATIC Energy Manager, the recorded energy data can be seamlessly included into a cross-site energy management system certified in accordance with ISO 50001.
S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor: Standardised efficiency evaluation of machines
With the S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor, machine manufacturers can easily document the energy efficiency of their machines based on six defined machine conditions and thus comply with the requirements of VDMA Measurement Instruction 34179.
The S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor is part of TIA Portal* and enables the integration of condition-based analysis of energy data into machines without great effort. Energy and media data can automatically presented as an acceptance document on the SIMATIC operator panel and in Excel format.
Plant operators also benefit: The efficiency data are part of the automation and can be called up on the operator panel at any time and can optionally be transferred to SIMATIC Energy Manager via the integrated interface and used for long-term evaluation across multiple machines. In this way, the operator can see the energy consumption over the plant lifecycle at a glance, identify any inefficient operating behaviorr, and take suitable measures to resolve the issue.
* TIA Portal V15 and higher
Load management
Avoid load peaks and distribute loads smoothly
Prove the energy efficiency of your machines and plants in detail. Monitor the agreed capacity limits for electrical energy and avoid fines with load management. Simple and integrated into automation with SIMATIC Energy Suite and S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor
Load management optimises energy costs
Load management as part of system automation
Load management is part of SIMATIC Energy Suite. This TIA Portal option (from V16) efficiently links energy management to automation. It allows comprehensive load management for your facility right from the in-feed and brings load management directly into production – without the need for special IT systems.
The solution can be fully implemented on a PLC system. Load management uses an integrated predictive algorithm that continually calculates the predicted final consumption value for the relevant period. Depending on the available capacity, actuators – that is, loads (e.g., motors) or power generators – are switched on or off according to the configured priority. The lower the priority, and thus the relevance to the process, the more frequently the actuator is switched off.
Users benefit from efficient engineering in TIA Portal: they can configure the load management system using TIA Portal interfaces, generate the finished program, and configure the corresponding visualisation. The solution also includes visualisation with SIMATIC WinCC Professional to display all relevant information, both for the complete system and for individual actuators.
Significant time savings
Configuration in TIA Portal with automatic generation of the program and visualisation for SIMATIC WinCC Professional – which is included in the solution – combine to cut time spent on implementation.
Predictable costs
Great versatility
Short response times
Company-wide energy analysis
Company-wide energy management with SIMATIC Energy Manager
Scalable solution for ISO 50001–compliant energy management
Your benefits at a glance
- Appropriate key performance indicators and data presentation options can be used to derive corresponding energy efficiency measures which, if successfully implemented, result in cost savings.
- The Power monitoring supports a secure & reliable power distribution
- Transparency at cost center level increases employee awareness and forms the basis for a transparent and comprehensible design of targets or review of the achievement of goals.
- Due to the proximity to production, technological processes and plants (e.g. machine status-related analysis) can be evaluated energetically.
- Transparency paired with forecasting functionality increases planning security and opens up new opportunities in energy procurement
- Energy controlling, with flexible reporting and analytics capabilities, help ensuring that efficient assets remain efficient
- Forms Key Performance Indicators to increase the efficiency of power production units as well as assets like consumers
- Openness is important. The OPC UA (HA) Server can be used to provide data to other applications.
- Meets legal requirements for monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions
Find out more about Siemens SIMATIC Energy Suite, talk to our experts.
We are Siemens trusted and approved distribution partner.
As a Value Added Reseller in Siemens’ Approved Partner network, Parmley Graham is a proven supplier of a wide range of quality products in the UK and globally.
Find out more how this will benefit you or check Siemens Configurator.
