08 Nov 2016

Certified energy management reduces operating costs

• Simatic Energy Manager PRO V7.0 energy management software for multiple location or company-wide energy analysis
• Identifies energy guzzlers, ISO 50001-compliant, and future-proof
• Suitable for controlling energy efficiency, forecasting and optimizing energy procurement
• Also available as an upgrade for the previous Simatic B.Data 6.0

Siemens has added many new functions to the latest version of its energy management software for analyzing energy consumption across multiple locations or even company-wide. Simatic Energy Manager PRO V7.0 is also available as an upgrade for the previous product Simatic B.Data 6.0. Companies use it for their energy efficiency controlling, such as billing cost centers, as well as for forecasting, for example to optimize energy procurement. The software from Siemens is certified by the TÜV German Technical Inspectorate, complies with the statutory ISO 50001 regulations for energy-efficient operation, and also reduces costs. The scalable Simatic Energy Manager PRO V7.0 energy management software has versatile visualization and analysis options so it can be customized to meet individual company requirements, and create reports, dashboards and management KPIs (key performance indicators), for example.

Compared to the previous product, the outstanding innovation in the Simatic Energy Manager PRO V7.0 is the widget-based Web dashboard for creating versatile and customized visualization and analyses of energy data. It is quick and easy for the user to intuitively create the desired visualization and evaluation view on screen in an online web browser, adding and removing widgets to create a customized screen layout. A large number of ready-made widgets are available – from line diagram, report, matrix, pie chart, and gauge, to traffic lights, value, text and image. The widgets can be zoomed to provide a better representation or to focus on specific sections of the screen for detailed analysis.

Also new is the seamless link to the Simatic Energy Suite, which holds the production-related energy measurement data. Direct transfer of the engineering data into the Energy Manager PRO V7.0 substantially reduces the engineering effort. The new, dynamic statistical functions now also offer versatile energy analyses in the Web Dashboard and Desktop Chart. Another innovation is the load efficiency function. It helps the user to evaluate the efficiency of loads, such as machines, on the basis of key figures. This enables the evaluation data to be generated automatically for entire cells, lines, or even individual cost centers. A high-performance MS SQL database ensures the long-term archiving of energy data.

Other improvements and new functions for calling up detailed energy data, automatic preprocessing of data, backing up and restoring data, authentication and access rights to the Active Directory, as well as support for software, such as Windows 10 and Office 2016 are also available.

Background information:
To keep energy costs under control over the long term, manufacturing companies equip the plants that use the most energy with instruments to measure their energy consumption. Linked to the automation technology, the energy and production data can be correlated to calculate, for example, energy costs per unit, machine or shift. Functions for energy and production data are integrated into many automation products and systems from Siemens. These include the Simatic Energy Suite energy management system, Simatic WinCC Scada system, Simatic PCS 7 process control system and Simatic controllers. The Simatic Energy Manager PRO energy management software obtains energy data from the above products or directly from the energy measuring instruments, and uses this data for the multi-location and company-wide energy management solution.

Some typical applications of the Simatic Energy Manager PRO are energy efficiency controlling, billing cost centers, company-wide energy analyses, such as reports, dashboards and KPI calculation, and optimizing the procurement of energy. The Simatic Energy Manager PRO is certified by the TÜV German Technical Inspectorate, and enables companies to comply with the statutory ISO 50001 regulations for energy-efficient operation, while also reducing operating costs. The energy efficiency of machinery can also be analyzed and improved: For example, complex raw values are aggregated to produce useful key figures, such as the energy utilization factor, energy efficiency and energy quality rate. Concepts for increasing the energy efficiency of machines are then derived from these figures.


Siemens has added many new functions to the latest version of its energy management software for analyzing energy consumption across multiple locations or even company-wide. Companies use Simatic Energy Manager PRO V7.0 for their energy efficiency controlling, such as billing cost centers, as well as for forecasting, for example to optimize energy procurement.

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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 165 years. The company is active in more than 200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalisation. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is No.1 in offshore wind turbine construction, a leading supplier of gas and steam turbines for power generation, a major provider of power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2015, which ended on September 30, 2015, Siemens generated revenue of €75.6 billion and net income of €7.4 billion. At the end of September 2015, the company had around 348,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the internet at www.siemens.com


 

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