TECHNOLOGY | ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Above: Jabil’s injection moulding facility in Mebane, North Carolina incorporates a wind farm and solar panels. Jabil operates 3,000 injection presses globally, with 20 facilities sourcing 100% of electricity from renewable resources
a high precision servo motor integrated with a proprietary servo-drive that ensures high precision with low power consumption. The pump drive and motor are supplied by Daikin Industries of Japan. Cincinnati Process Technologies also offers its
Energy Management Device as part of its retrofit services for hydraulic machines. The EMD maxim- ises energy savings by controlling all the ma- chine’s energy usage during startup, shutdown, and idle periods. EMD has four main capabilities, including Idle Shutdown Sequence, which shuts down barrel heats, and motors; Bank Temperature sequence, which gets the machine’s barrel temperature to an adjustable setpoint; Auto Temperature Shutdown Sequence, which sets the shutdown time and zone temperatures; and Auto Temperature Startup Sequence which handles start up time and zone temperatures and has a selectable soft start feature that limits barrel kilowatts from 1-100% during startup. CPT also offers its own retrofit control and drive
package which incorporates a B&R Controller, variable speed drive, 3-phase AC induction motor and pump technology. CPT also offers Pump MD, a device that monitors the health of a hydraulic axial piston pump. It also offers a Nozzle Leak Protection device. The devices and services help to reduce machinery operating costs through energy savings and improvements to overall equipment operating efficiency.
Software advances Wittmann Battenfeld also advanced the functional- ity of its TEMI+ MES technology with the addition of an energy consumption tracking module and a
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hydraulic unit performance indicator module. Its new Imago software visualises and displays in a scalable manner the energy consumption of a machine or all devices in a production cell or the production equipment in an entire plant. By connecting all production relevant machines, the total energy consumption of the production site can be measured, providing a permanent overview of power peaks and energy consumption. The Imago energy monitoring and management module is offered in three versions, with the newest, ImagoXT, giving the possibility of detailed analysis of every single energy consumption point in the factory. It contains numerous functions and tools that are helpful for displaying current energy usage, graphically depicting historical trends, and defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and consumption targets. Real-time energy flows between different departments or consumption clusters can be visualised and analysed, which helps businesses to identify energy-guzzling equipment within the company. The software can also directly calculate carbon consumption and achieved energy savings. All the calculated values can be archived for long-term analyses. The ImagoSX module is designed for companies
that produce systems for measurement and monitoring of industrial machinery not natively equipped with customisable user interfaces. The module can connect with other monitoring and measurement systems and allows for remote cloud- based data collection without additional software, with data accessible by web browser. ImagoLX is designed for simple monitoring of electrical parameters, ideal for investigating specific energy usage or to bring visibility to a company’s general consumption of energy. Wittmann Battenfeld’s Health Factor module is a
robust and easy-to-understand performance indicator that determines the health status of the main hydraulic units, from which the condition of the pumps can be deduced. It takes a multitude of internal process parameters of the respective drivetrain into account in real time and draws on historical trend values. The module can zero in on a specific questionable hydraulic unit or pump, enabling repair and maintenance work to be planned more effectively and minimise disruption of production operation.
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