Users of BarcoVision’s MES systems are now offered energy monitoring. The EnergyMaster is designed to monitor power consumption, the use of water, steam, compressed air, gas and other types of utilities.
The EnergyMaster combines the collected energy consumption data with the production data such as units produced to come up with reports such as the ‘Specific Energy Consumption’ (SEC) graph and the ‘Performance Characteristic Line’ (PCL). Savings in cost of energy are often very easy to achieve, provided the reasons for losses are known, says BarcoVision.
Energy meters and consumption meters can be connected to the data units already installed on production machines.
BarcoVision has also introduced a consumption meter for compressed air, especially for measuring the air consumption on air jet weaving looms.
