Understand and Better Manage your

Energy Consumption with Energy Intelligence

FactoryTalk VantagePoint
Energy can help you:
Monitor energy usage based on
demand/availability for increased
efciency and reduced costs
Identify energy consumption by asset
and correlate energy information
with production information for more
informed decision making
Relate kWh to product unit produced
to help reduce costs
Enable comparison of lines, shifts,
machines, and plant energy usage
in order to improve overall energy
consumption
Utilize pre-confgured content and
reports to save time and money
Energy Consumption is
no longer a cost of doing
business. It is a major driver in
determining how best in class
manufacturers are creating a
competitive advantage.
Energy Awareness and Visibility
Critical to Operations
Improved awareness and visibility to energy resource data is the foundation
for any strategic energy management program it helps an organization
understand where, when and how it utilizes energy in order to then establish
the necessary scope of its energy savings eforts, defne key metrics, and
put the appropriate measures in place. The depth and granularity by which
organizations visualize energy consumption varies greatly from facility
level or site level awareness to production and product level awareness.
By integrating energy information with production information you not
only gain better insight to how energy infuences the bottom line, but also
how energy improvements can ultimately improve production.
VantagePoint Energy
With VantagePoint Energy we have
a more granular level of energy
information allowing us to make much
more detailed adjustments to our
process and production.
Operations Manager
Large Global Food Manufacturer
What is Energy Intelligence?
Energy Intelligence is an extension of a manufacturing
intelligence approach applied to energy use within a
companys manufacturing facilities. An energy intelligence
system can integrate data from islands of energy usage
information (building management systems, building
sensors, utilities, etc.) and combine it with other operational
data from your enterprise applications (supply chain,
manufacturing, asset management, etc.) to provide visibility
into usage trends, costs and efciencies. By bringing this
information together in one place, an Energy Intelligence
system can help company leaders understand their current
energy usage and provide them with information to make
informed decisions about what actions will provide
the most return.
Something Diferent
Traditional Energy Management solutions are based on
metering energy across the organization and using this
information to look at behaviors and areas for optimizing
energy use. Energy Usage is measured by overall facility
consumption and the focus is on using less energy
without a real understanding of where the specifc
energy hogs are. Improvement initiatives are often
seen as an expense instead of an investment. To have
an efective Energy Management program, you need to
establish a baseline by measuring your energy usage over
time to understand why you are using it and to determine
how your energy consumption is contributing to your
overall cost (e.g. Peak Demand).
To take Energy Management to the next level, you
would want to correlate energy usage with production
information for true insights into how your production
decisions infuence your energy usage.
With FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy the focus is on
driving the measured energy usage at the main and
sub-station level and distributing it as energy
consumption across the enterprise.
FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy is a model extension
for Energy for FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI. The Energy
component includes an ISA-95 organizational model
extension for energy, as well as energy metering and
energy consumption. The Energy model components
include predefned content, such as energy reporting
and dashboards, as well as production energy reporting
and dashboards. With this capability, users can aggregate
metered energy/consumption data with production
assets throughout the organization to start monitoring
energy utilization.
The Power of an Integrated Energy Model
By fully integrating energy information in the Unifed
Production Model (UPM), it is now possible to fully correlate
energy data with other manufacturing data available at
various levels in the model. Customers can now use the data
to make smart decisions based on the energy data, and also
use the production data to make smart production decisions
that ultimately will improve their energy consumption.
Powerful Energy Dashboards and Reports
Utilizing energy metered data from sources such as
Allen-Bradley Power Monitors, Intelligent Drive Control
products, IntelliCENTER Motor Control Centers, reporting
content and dashboards are provided out of the box
to provide visibility into energy consumption. This also
provides a framework for building an Enterprise Energy
Management solution based on the Unifed Production
Model provided in FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI.
Daily View
Energy at the Asset Level
Having energy information available at the asset
level is critical to being able to use energy as
a controlling input to production. Correlating
energy with production information allows you
to make more informed decisions regarding your
equipment and production ultimately resulting
in lowering energy costs and improving
production results.
Standardized Framework to
Build Powerful Solutions
FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI includes some of the most
powerful reporting components in the industry. You may
begin by creating an ad hoc report, then when you have it
set up the way you want, you can publish it with a simple
click of the mouse. The objects are immediately a part of
the model and are accessible from the reports list by
anyone with a web browser and user permission. You
may view the reports directly or via the FactoryTalk
VantagePoint EMI Portal.
Trending and Plotting
FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI incorporates two of the
most versatile and powerful trending and plotting
applications in the world. With drag-and-drop simplicity,
you can drop simple tags or complete objects onto the
plot. Change time periods, stack traces, switch between
historian and real-time data.
Microsoft Excel

Add-In
You can leverage all the capabilities in Excel and have the
means to pull information from the Unifed Production
Model in FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI to build highly
efective reports. Touch it up, format cells and regions to
your liking, even create some graphs and charts from the
data. Once you have published the report, you no longer
need the spreadsheet. It is perfectly preserved for you in
the model. And it is not necessary to have Excel installed
on any client to be able to view the report.
See how energy information from your operation becomes part of a smart energy and sustainable solution
with informative dashboards and reports.
Daily View
Energy data resides all over
your plant. With FactoryTalk
VantagePoint Energy, you
can access that energy data
from its source in relation
to your production
information in a single,
logical model to create
useful reports and KPIs for
more informed decisions
Get More Information
For information about ordering FactoryTalk
VantagePoint Energy, contact your local Rockwell Automation
sales ofce or Allen-Bradley distributor. Or learn more
by visiting http://discover.rockwellautomation.com/energy
Energy Savings is the Driving Force for
Change for a Large Confectionery Plant
The rising energy costs were driving up
production costs for a confectionery company
that produces 18,200 tons of products in Europe,
so Rockwell Automation ofered a solution using
Power Monitors (PM 1000 and PM 3000) and
FactoryTalk EnergyMetrix.
In the frst step, we looked especially to the
quality of our electrical power supply, because
we had some issues with our electricity provider,
explains the Technical Team Leader. In the
following steps, over the next year, we would
like to investigate the energy consumption for
each production line with a PM1000 from
Rockwell Automation.
By adding FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy
with a connector to FactoryTalk EnergyMetrix,
this customer can now measure their energy
consumption in direct correlation to various
production parameters. (i.e. Energy use by line,
shift or product) The logging and trending
of energy data can be done with FactoryTalk
EnergyMetrix, while useful reports, dashboards
and KPIs from FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy,
can now provide information for energy and
cost savings throughout the plant.
Case Study
Support of Energy Management Systems
FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy is the perfect tool
to support implementing Energy Management systems
(such as ISO 50001 and SEP: Superior Energy Performance).
Combining energy consumption information with
other relevant variables from production allows you to
create energy performance indicators and baselines and
display those in dashboards and reports thereby making
the progress of energy savings transparent within an
organization as well as allow employees and operators to
potentially be able to understand how their actions help
improve energy savings and ultimately help contributing to
the organizations objectives and goals.
Provide Visibility into Energy Consumption
at the Unit, Machine and Load Level
By looking at energy down at the asset level, you are able
to much better evaluate energy savings based on your
objectives, targets and action plans put in place over time.
You are able to see how an improvement in a specifc
process area or piece of equipment has an impact on the
energy use and/or production for that area.
In addition, with the capabilities of FactoryTalk VantagePoint
EMI of connecting to all of your operations disparate
data sources, you can use this system as the main energy
management system across the facility. Then, your energy
information is correlated with production information,
as well as other relevant variables such as weather data,
product and raw material characteristics, transportation
costs, etc. to provide a broader picture of possible energy
and business cost reductions.
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Publication FTALK-PP021-EN-P February 2013 Copyright 2013 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA.
Supersedes FTALK-PP028E-EN-P February 2012