Energy Efficiency Management
Efficient energy use, or simply called energy efficiency, lies
in using less energy to provide the same level of energy service.
Energy efficiency is the untapped energy resource that is perfectly
clean, remarkably cheap, surprisingly abundant and immediately
available. The revolution to improve energy efficiency has been
happening in USA since the energy crisis in 1973s and it has
now become a center of focus to address raising energy costs
and green house gas (GHG) effect.
According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient
Economy, of the entire energy produced, the industrial sector
consumes 35%, buildings (both commercial & residential) consume
40% and the transportation sector consumes the remaining 25%.
About 83% of all the energy produced is from traditional sources
like petroleum, natural gas and coal. Traditional energy produces
the largest amount of GHG. By making the industrial plants
and buildings energy efficient companies will be able to save
about 20% of their energy cost and reduce GHG. Read
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As part of their corporate responsibility, to remain competitive
and with intent to save precious dollars on energy spent,
enterprises have embarked on the task of addressing the energy
related challenges by implementing some of the best practices
to achieve efficiency. These include:
- Making a commitment to become and stay energy efficient
- Managing energy efficiency as part of the corporate
portfolio
- Investing in capital projects to improve energy efficiency
- Creating energy efficiency awareness company wide
- Driving best practices in operations and maintenance
of equipments
While creating energy efficiency awareness and implementing best practices in operations and maintenance of equipments, can be few immediate goals in improving energy efficiency, in the long run it is essential that enterprises invest in developing a centralized database that will help plan, implement measure and report improvements in energy efficiency. This alone will help govern the energy efficiency program holistically.
Birlasoft's Energy Consulting
& Services Group enables enterprises to leverage their investment
in EAM by implementing Energy Efficiency Management (EEM)
program to manage energy efficiently and also maximize Return
on Investment (ROI) and lower the Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO).
CLIENT CHALLENGES
- Enterprises are aware of the running
trends in energy and environmental issues as they are in
the news everyday lately. The gap between profitability
and energy usage is not blurred anymore. Lately the connection
between future competitiveness and efficient energy management
is gaining more attention.
- Efficient energy consumption is
fast becoming a management issue. With a priority red flag
hanging overhead, companies are looking to integrate energy
usage information into their existing systems to enable
a continuous improvement in utilizing energy efficiently.
- Integrated information systems
that can capture energy usage data, energy efficiency plans,
and improvements do not exist in most companies as there
are many stand-alone systems used for performing various
activities in an energy efficiency program.
- Lack of information systems to
gather, measure, analyze and report energy usage has hampered
effective implementation of energy efficiency management
programs. Diverse range of energy consuming assets in an
enterprise has made it complicated for organizations to
set basic standards, evaluate available opportunities and
start saving energy.
WHAT BIRLASOFT OFFERS:
BirlaSoft Energy
Efficiency Management Service:
Birlasoft's
global Center of Excellence in Enterprise Asset & Service Management
provides consulting services in Energy Efficiency Management.
We make use of the robust reusable software components to design
and implement an integrated system to manage energy efficiency
programs. System design will focus on leveraging investment
in existing information systems like Maximo, Automation & Control
systems, and ERP systems like Oracle, SAP and others.
Our solutions are built by enhancing or extending the existing
features and functionalities present in Maximo for asset management.
These functionalities help implement best practices in energy
centric maintenance management. Integrations built by Birlasoft
between Maximo and external systems will help gather energy
usage data more consistently to make it available appropriately
for decision-making. Reports created using Maximo will help
create a centralized repository of all energy usage data to
analyze and visualize the data through dashboards.
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By implementing best energy-centric maintenance
management practices, integrating systems to gather energy usage
data, enabling KPI dashboards and reports to measure and analyze
energy usage data, organizations will be able to implement their
energy efficiency management program more effectively.
IBM Maximo is a leader in Asset and Maintenance
management solution. Built on a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition
(Java EE) component-based Internet architecture, Maximo Asset
Management seamlessly fits in any modern enterprise technology
infrastructure and integrates easily with your business systems.
Its service oriented architecture (SOA) and alignment to your
business processes helps you work the way you want to work,
while having information visibility across the enterprise. Built-in
features like condition monitoring, job plans, condition based
work and other functionalities present in Maximo help build
features required for energy efficiency management. Birlasoft's
EEM solution lays strong emphasis on allowing companies to understand
their energy consumption trends better and, therefore, implement
best maintenance practices and management policies to improve
the overall energy efficiency of all assets.
Along with these added features for optimization of energy usage,
Birlasoft's EEM solution also provides the regular features
of Maximo, used for managing procurement, inventory, labor,
work orders as well as calculating costs for maintenance, in
addition to the energy consumption monitoring features.
Birlasoft's Premiere level Partnership with IBM, coupled with
an AAA accreditation ensures the highest quality of service
delivery with a commitment towards excellence for all global
clientele.
THE BIRLASOFT ADVANTAGE
- Reduce energy related costs
- Creation of sustainable energy policies
- Effective management of compliance regulations
- Higher efficiency maintenance programs
- Consultation based project design & delivery to leverage
investment in existing systems
- On-Demand Software as a Service Offering
- 24X7 Managed Services and Support lowers TCO
- Premiere level, AAA Technical Certified IBM Business
Partner
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Contact a Birlasoft Consultant for additional information
or to schedule a meeting.
Email Birlasoft:
asm@birlasoft.com
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Energy
Efficiency Management
