Dürr presents its ISO 50001-certified energy management solution DXQenergy.management, providing plant operators with a transparent overview of energy and media consumption across the entire production plant, making it possible to quickly identify primary consumers at the plant level.
What are a production plant’s electricity consumption trends? How much solvent does each workpiece require? Is there a noticeable increase in water consumption? Plant operators need answers to these and many other questions – especially in energy-intensive sectors like car manufacturing – to reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and operating costs. Dürr’s energy management solution DXQenergy.management transparently displays the necessary data to the user in clearly arranged dashboards. Various views are available to quickly see relevant gas, electricity, water, paint, or solvent consumption for the entire plant or select areas like individual process lines. Thus, the production plant’s different user groups get information with the precise level of detail they need.
DXQenergy.management continuously monitors the data recorded by the linked sensors and saves this data in a central location. However, pure consumption values like robot electricity consumption are of limited use for analyzing and optimizing the energy efficiency of machines and processes. DXQenergy.management combines consumption and production values to provide insightful key figures like electricity consumption per produced body.
Automatically switching all systems along the entire process chain reduces energy consumption and manual effort. This function stores operational work time models so that the machines switch on automatically in good time before work begins, are scaled down during break times and are reliably switched off at the end of the workday. Manual intervention is still possible if unplanned changes occur.
DXQenergy.management is suitable for all industry sectors and can be retrofitted to existing plants with network-compatible sensors. Homag, one of the world’s leading providers of integrated production solutions in the woodworking industry and trades, is already using the software at its Schopfloch site.
The energy management solution has also completed TÜV certification there, according to ISO 50001.