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and engineers. Technicians and engineers can join the IOR at very low cost, giving them access to a huge amount of fundamental – and advanced – technical information as well as data on refrigerants, legislation, safety and so on. And the member fee is tax deductible.
FM companies and energy effi- ciency
Our FM companies have over thousands of high-energy consuming systems, in particular large water chillers and VRF systems. These companies are in a well-poised position to enforce their principles and requirement upon their own in-house engineers as well as the air conditioning and refrigeration contracting companies that appoint in a sub- contract basis.
Those that stand out in this
regard will serve their end-user clients within small to very large building well, in reducing their running costs, maintenance and repair expenses, whilst at the same time helping our environment.
IoT and predictive maintenance Our technicians and engineers can only visit equipment once, twice or perhaps four times per year. A lot can go wrong during these unattended periods. More and more equipment is now capable of remote interrogation and/or issuing alarms when things start to go wrong.
I work with a very simple yet advanced technology capable of this for any type and size of system. This has allowed me to see just how much energy is wasted and how easy it is to rectify.
I can see literally every aspect of performance, including cooling capacity, power input, power factor, COP, SEI, refrigerant charge / leakage and most importantly, energy consumption, running cost and CO2
emissions.
Imagine how much we can cut wasted energy if technicians and engineers were able to
simply go On-Line to check system status, or receive advance warning of excess energy consumption, instead of driving to and from sites, burning fuel and time, often when there may be no real need to visit at all. 24/7 performance monitoring with automated
alarms signalling imminent failure, refrigerant leakage and excess energy consumption is already available and should be far more widely applied.
Industry 4
The industrial Revolution is now now in the age of Industry 4. This IoT-based approach to the future covers several areas, such as manufacturing, but also smart buildings. Industrial technology will support humans with tasks example, maintenance is vital for keeping performance consistent and maximising the lifespan of equipment. But traditionally, maintenance is more of a reactive process.
Part of Industry 4.0 is shifting to
predictive
maintenance.From my long experience I came to realise a very important relationship: an There are several great reasons for improving and maintaining the Running cost Saving fossil fuels Reducing CO2
emissions and
global warming Eliminating breakdowns, down- time, and expensive repairs
industry can make a massive contribution to the world's climate change problems, not just by installing heat pumps. That took us over 30 years to introduce
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