GE Fanuc and EnteGreat collaborate on industrial energy management product
SmartStart for Manufacturing Energy Management software and services designed to deliver results in less than 30 days.
David Greenfield -- Control Engineering, 11/30/2009
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has released Proficy SmartStart for Manufacturing Energy Management Solution, a packaged software and services solution, which is said to provide critical insight into energy usage to help customers reduce energy costs, improve production planning, identify sources of energy waste, and drive energy management best practices, while correlating energy costs with manufacturing production.
"As energy price volatility continues," said Sheila Kester, general manager, Operations Management Software for GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, "manufacturers are coming under increasing pressure to proactively manage their energy consumption. Most companies have not factored energy consumption into their tactical production planning/execution decisions or strategic planning because they don't have the right data in the appropriate context. Timely visibility to this important data at a local level (manufacturing area, equipment, and product) will allow companies to optimize their production-related energy consumption."
The SmartStart Manufacturing Energy Management Solution, developed by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' premier solution provider EnteGreat, applies Proficy software components that can be deployed to provide comprehensive insights into the energy profile and consumption at each manufacturing site within an enterprise. Features of the package provide:
- manufacturing context (product, batch, lot, equipment) for energy usage;
- real-time visualization of contextualized energy information which enables manufacturing personnel to optimize planning and execution decisions; and
- accurate energy consumption data for performance management reporting and analysis.
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