Turning Energy Data into Better Factory Decisions
Electricity • Gas • Water • Heat • Temperature • Environmental Data
For food and drink manufacturers, reducing utility consumption is not simply about cutting energy bills. Better visibility of electricity, gas and water can reveal waste, highlight process inefficiencies and provide valuable information about how a factory is actually operating.
The challenge is getting the right data, from the right places, in a format that people and other systems can use.
See Where Your Energy is Really Going
A factory’ s main electricity, gas or water meters only tell part of the story. To identify opportunities for improvement, manufacturers need to understand consumption at a more granular level- by production line, process, department, building or individual piece of equipment.
Elcomponent designs and installs metering and monitoring systems that provide this visibility across:
• Electricity- from incoming supplies to individual production lines and equipment
• Gas- monitoring consumption across processes and plant
• Water- identifying usage, abnormal consumption and potential leakage
• Heat and temperature- monitoring thermal energy and operating conditions
• Environmental measurements- including temperature, humidity and other sensors
Existing meters can often be incorporated, with additional metering installed only where required.
Wireless, Wired- or Both
Food manufacturing sites can be challenging environments for data collection. Production areas, plant rooms, chilled stores and large buildings do not always lend themselves to conventional cabling.
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