Energy manager reduces costs and carbon emissions for manufacturers

Emerson has launched its new Energy Manager solution, a pre-engineered hardware and software designed to simplify industrial electricity monitoring with quick setup and intuitive operation. Ready out of the box, the solution monitors asset energy use in real-time, allowing manufacturers to gain deeper insight into energy consumption and operating costs, lowering CO2 emissions and maximising energy and operational efficiency.

Most manufacturers, including OEMs, consumer packaged goods companies and food and beverage producers, face mounting pressure to increase productivity while lowering energy use and environmental impact. Yet industrial machinery is energy-intensive, consuming high power even when idle. To meet efficiency and sustainability goals better, operators require the best possible visibility into their facilities' energy use to address waste and inefficiencies.

This new solution provides energy measurements in real-time, allowing plant managers to quickly view detailed values and see savings opportunities, such as idle consumption and peak loads. The software's easy-to-use dashboard supplies asset-specific energy use, associated costs and CO2 emissions for up to ten endpoints (expandable to 50 with a license).

This level of visibility provides organisations greater control to identify idle machines and optimise machine schedules during off-peak hours, lowering electricity use across the plant floor and overall utility costs. Most facilities can reduce energy waste by up to 10-30% and carbon emissions by up to 15-30%.

Highly scalable and easy to integrate with new or existing energy meters, the solution makes it straightforward to commission and quickly realise a return on investment. The software is either preinstalled on edge hardware, such as the PACSystemsTM RXi2-BP industrial PC or as a stand-alone application that can be installed in a virtualised environment.

"Reliable, accurate monitoring of energy costs and emissions is becoming invaluable to organisations," said Eugenio Silva, intelligent automation product manager with Emerson's discrete automation business. "Our new Energy Manager solution gives operators, facility managers and corporate sustainability teams greater visibility and deeper understanding of energy consumption and operating costs at all times. This can better position companies to track and reach targets, comply with regulations, and reliably reduce environmental impact."

For more extensive media and utilities monitoring, the solution can be paired with the Emerson Compressed Air Manager to supply a streamlined view of energy costs and compressed air usage of machines across a production line, factory and site.