Overcoming Time Constraints

Kyle Rossi, Sales Manager, Energy Management at MRI Software, explains: “Time is a precious resource, and the demands of maintaining daily operations can mean it’s difficult to find the time to address sustainability goals.

An EMS can streamline this process, freeing up resources to capture optimisation opportunities. By making energy usage data accessible across your organisation, an EMS can help you to build strong business cases to win support for energy efficiency measures and prove the ROI of your investments.”

Transforming Scattered Data into Strategic Insights

Businesses might track a range of energy consumption metrics, with meters for various utilities, but data is often segregated into disparate systems managed by different vendors. The challenge intensifies when certain areas lack adequate metering, and calibration requirements add yet another layer of complexity.

MRI can help provide much-needed support to address these challenges. MRI Energy specialist contractors can conduct a comprehensive site-wide metering survey, ensuring up-to-date documentation of existing infrastructure and creating a structured workflow to address metering gaps.

 

Unifying Insights for Informed Decisions

Without a central interface for metering data, aggregating insights across hundreds of thousands of data points is a formidable task. Existing systems often fall short of providing the comprehensive aggregated totals your business needs.

An EMS serves as the central repository for all utility metering data, offering a robust toolkit for data analysis, anomaly detection, and centralized reporting of KPIs such as kWh per production unit. Modern visualization capabilities offer a clear view of your energy usage and optimisation potential.

Aligning Energy Goals with Production Output

Managing targets and KPIs can be complicated, especially when production output exhibits wide variability. Many organisations rely on labour-intensive spreadsheets for data entry and analysis.

An EMS like MRI Energy calculates targets effortlessly and generates consumption targets based on production volume forecasts, production schedules, and other critical factors. By consolidating utilities data, production volumes, and targets, it replaces disparate spreadsheets, saving valuable  resource.

How MRI Energy helped Coats achieve its goals

Global manufacturing firm Coats implemented MRI Energy to revolutionise their approach to energy management across 12 of their sites. By leveraging MRI Energy features to integrate energy data from a wide range of sensors and make them visible to departments company-wide via tailored dashboards, Coats was able to share real-time data and insights to capture energy-saving opportunities of over 22 million kilowatts globally, valued at $630,000, in 2022 alone.

Senior Engineering Manager at Coats, Ray Smith, explained “It’s really important that people understand the value of having dynamic data. As a manufacturing organisation, you quickly find yourself behind the curve if you’re not accessing dynamic data at every level, and as an energy-intensive business it’s critically important to reach quickly to change. In 35 years, the difference I’ve seen is incredible – technology like MRI Energy is allowing us to move much quicker to respond to what we need to as a business.”

Chart your course to Net Zero with MRI Energy

Kyle Rossi says: “For nearly two decades, MRI Energy has been instrumental in helping businesses achieve their corporate sustainability goals. MRI Energy empowers users with resource and energy intelligence, facilitating data-driven energy management decisions and providing the tools to implement intelligent energy management solutions enterprise-wide. “

To find out how you can manage your energy more efficiently to drive down costs and achieve your Net Zero targets, visit MRI Software at stand number E60 at the 2024 EMEX Exhibition, or contact their team today.

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