Emerson offers solution to reduce energy costs and emissions

Emerson has launched its Energy Manager solution, a pre-engineered hardware and software offering designed to simplify industrial electricity monitoring with quick setup and intuitive operation. The Energy Manager solution is designed to monitor asset energy use in real time, allowing manufacturers to gain deeper insight into energy consumption and operating costs — lowering carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions —and to maximise energy and operational efficiency.

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

Emerson says its Energy Manager 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 has an easy-to-use dashboard that provides asset-specific energy use, associated costs and CO₂ emissions for up to 10 end points (expandable to 50 endpoints with a licence).

“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.”

A higher level of visibility makes it possible to identify idle machines and optimise machine schedules during off-peak hours, reducing electricity use across the plant floor and significantly lowering overall utility costs. Emerson claims most facilities could reduce energy waste up to 10 –30% and carbon emissions by up to 15–30%.

The software is available either preinstalled on edge hardware, such as the PACSystemsTM RXi2-BP industrial PC, or as a standalone application that can be installed in a virtualised environment.