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New research shows benefits of adopting best-in-class energy management practices
Plano, TX — Recent research from the Aberdeen Group reveals that industry-leading manufacturers are much more likely than other companies to view energy management as strategic to their business success and to apply advanced data visualization, collection and monitoring tools to their energy-management and cost-reduction strategies.
May 27, 2009 By Newswire
The report, partially funded by Invensys and titled "Energy Management: Driving Value in Industrial Environments," defines best-in-class companies as those that have 90 per cent overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) ratings, have reduced their energy consumption by 15 per cent and outperform corporate operating margin goals by 15 per cent.
"Manufacturers are under intense pressure to reduce operating costs, and many are responding to these pressures by deploying advanced energy management tools and techniques," said report co-author Mehul Shah, research analyst with the Aberdeen Group’s Manufacturing Operations and Industrial Automation Practice. "For some, energy costs constitute as much as 25 percent of their total operating costs, and even small improvements can have a dramatic impact on their bottom line."
Among the best practices adopted by best-in-class companies are:
- 62 per cent make energy usage data available to decision makers in real-time;
- 55 per cent take energy costs into account when scheduling production;
- 62 per cent establish metrics to quantify the benefits of energy management programs;
- 56 per cent tie operational metrics to financial metrics;
- 56 per cent invest in technology to automate collection and monitoring of energy data.
Invensys has helped make the report available for free until July 3, 2009. It can be downloaded at http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410133&cid=5900.
"The findings of the Aberdeen survey are highly consistent with what we see among the clients of our energy management practice," said Nathalie Marcotte, vice president, Global Consulting, Invensys Process Systems. "For example, in the first months of automated energy monitoring and management, our client Sasol Infrachem realized a 6 percent savings on energy feedstocks and 4 percent savings in electricity costs at just two steam stations, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings over the year. They expect substantial incremental savings as they bring together new business information and process data to identify other areas of improvement."
For more details about energy management solutions from IPS, visit http://www.ips.invensys.com or download a free energy management white paper and view a video at www.ips-answers.com.
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