GESCAN Ontario has launched a Energy Optimization Specialist Team, to help industrial and manufacturing deliver cleaner, smarter and more efficient energy solutions. Our goal of the effort is to “help drive energy efficiency, increase productivity and improve sustainability in key industrial applications in Ontario.
Gescan’s Neil Wilson has recieved desigantion of CEM(certification in energy management) and will lead our optimization efforts. This team will capitalize on our core vendors energy expertise with both products and services to identify and install the right solutions for our customers.
This team has experience and global know-how to deliver cleaner, smarter and more efficient solutions that draw on products and services from Eaton, Total Protection Solutions and GE.
These solutions apply to nearly any manufacturing operation, including data centers, healthcare facilities, oil and gas processing, mining and paper mills.
Industrial/Manufacturing Energy Optimization
Monitoring motors for energy savings
Your motors can help you find substantial energy savings, if you can hear what they’re trying to tell you. The right monitoring equipment will help you get the message.
With limited natural resources and the ever-increasing global demand for energy, it only stands to reason that energy costs will continue to increase. As energy costs rise around the world, the incentives for facilities to operate their equipment more efficiently will compound over time. There are mandatory means (e.g., regulations) that authorities use to enforce conservation, and compensatory means (e.g., special rate tariffs) that reward users for using less energy. In either case, reducing energy consumption will decrease bottom-line costs to the user. Continue reading
A New Way to Look at Your Manufacturing Process, Part 2
About a month ago, Carl posted on our blog regarding Sciemetric and the sigPOD and how it can shape manufacturing going forward. Read original here.
In the post, he reviewed how the technology looks at the unique signature that the process has and using different algorithms and processes can aid in determining whether the part currently being produced has a signature that matches the criteria set and as such whether it is a good or bad part. Continue reading
Should Natural Gas Vehicles be considered as part of the portfolio of transportation solutions?
Natural Gas Vehicle Emissions
Compared with vehicles fueled with conventional diesel and gasoline, natural gas vehicles can produce significantly lower amounts of harmful emissions such as nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and toxic and carcinogenic pollutants as well as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Light-Duty Vehicle Emissions: CNG vs. Gasoline
Testing has been performed to compare the emissions of light-duty CNG vehicles versus light-duty gasoline vehicles. For detailed results, see the Vehicle Technologies Emissions Testing Continue reading
Introducing Eaton’s New S611 Soft Starter
Eaton is pleased to introduce the new S611 soft starter. The Eaton S611 is an innovative, economical soft starter combining advanced functionality, unsurpassed configuration flexibility, and an extremely comprehensive user interface. It is available in both open and enclosed control configurations to meet the needs of the commercial construction and OEM segment. Continue reading
O’Leary encourages manufacturers to adapt in CMTS keynote address
Popular businessman, venture capitalist and television personality Kevin O’Leary made a lasting impression on many who attended his keynote address at the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (CMTS) 2011 in Toronto. His strongest message was that Canadian manufacturers need to adapt to the financial power shifts in the global market. Continue reading
A New Way to Look at Your Manufacturing Process
A picture is worth 1000 words. This anecdote has been used time and again, by just about everyone you know. Today, I am going to show you how you can get a picture of your manufacturing process, and how this picture will be worth far more to you than just 1000 words, it will be worth dollars in your pocket, both in reduced production time, faster QA and more responsive quality recalls.
ProfiNet Myths Debunked
With GE Intelligent Platforms recently releasing their ProfiNet offering, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to go over some of the comments, feedback, and misconceptions surrounding this protocol.
It appears that for many, this is a very new protocol and there are a lot of myths and mis-information floating around, surrounding this protocol.
Migrating from an IC693RTM705 to an IC695CMM002
Recently, I had the opportunity to assist a customer in migrating their 90-30 to a PACSystems RX3i controller. Machine Edition made quick work of converting the hardware config and code, however 1 particular module posed a problem; this customer was using a Horner HE693RTM705 Modbus Master. The RX3i does not support this module and its functionality has been replaced by the IC695CMM002. Looking over the code for this, the conversion appeared daunting at first, but with a couple of handy resources and a spreadsheet or two, the conversion was relatively painless.
Okay, I’m monitoring my energy. Now what?
You’ve listened to the experts. “If you don’t monitor it you can’t manage it”. Got it.
So you’ve invested in and installed the monitors. You see data. Now what do you do with it?
Lesson 1. The easiest way to find savings: Electrical patterns. If you’re over 50kW load in Ontario, you are paying for electrical energy two ways; the energy itself (in kWh or kilo-watt-hours) and a demand charge – how fast you are drawing the energy from the electrical grid (much harder to find on your invoice, but it’s there…). Your electrical usage data, from your monitoring system, in graphical form, looks like a bunch of peaks and valleys, and unless you’re a skier, not very excited at the picture. So – there are two things we look for, the way to find out where the easiest savings may be found.
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