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Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization
EDGE2WEB AND BELDEN ARE PARTNERING TO DELIVER END-TO-END SMART MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS. FACTORY INSIGHTS ENERGY USE OPTIMIZATION GIVES MANUFACTURING LEADERS POWERFUL TOOLS TO MANAGE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND COST.
FACTORY INSIGHTS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES THE TIME, COST, AND COMPLEXITY REQUIRED TO GAIN CONTEXTUALIZED, ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS FROM MANUFACTURING DATA.
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Optimize Energy Consumption and Cost
Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization is an end-to-end smart factory solution that collects energy use data from your shop floor, computes and visualizes energy consumption KPIs, and provides powerful AI-driven insights for optimizing your energy footprint.
SCHEDULE AN ENERGY USE OPTIMIZATION DEMO TODAY!
Schedule an energy use and optimization demo to learn how you can use Factory Insights to quickly:
- Acquire, normalize, and integrate your energy data Belden CloudRail can be quickly configured to acquire energy data from thousands of metering devices using common protocols like IO-Link, Modbus (both RTU and TCP), and OPC-UA. Data can be contextualized and integrated at the edge, then transmitted securely to AWS IoT SiteWise in the cloud.
- Instantly derive critical energy consumption insights Factory Insights uses your energy data to compute and visualize consumption KPIs for your production equipment, lines, areas, and sites. Built-in scorecards and dashboards give your shop floor users actionable insights they will immediately understand and use.
- Compute and visualize custom KPIs without coding Factory Insights includes Edge2Web Power Tools, a breakthrough no-code solution that enables EHS and sustainability analysts to quickly create custom energy analytics for use by plant managers and compliance leaders.
- Use GenAI to drive transformative energy improvements
Factory Insights includes built-in AI assistants and analytics that help you quickly optimize consumption and reduce costs. Give your manufacturing leaders powerful tools to tune equipment and processes for optimal power utilization and performance.
Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization solution can be deployed quickly to deliver insights your manufacturing leaders will easily understand and use.
Simplify Energy Data Acquisition
Collect, process, and transmit factory data to the cloud using Belden CloudRail, the proven industrial data acquisition service included with the Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization solution. CloudRail deploys in minutes to your AWS edge tier and quickly connects to all of your energy metering devices. Your DataOps team will love CloudRail’s no-code tools for normalizing, integrating, and securely transmitting energy data to the AWS cloud. CloudRail gives you a comprehensive data acquisition service that can be securely scaled to meet current and future smart factory needs.
Analyze Machine Energy Use and Performance
Track energy use by every machine in your plant. Belden CloudRail can acquire data from controllers, sensors, and meters, enabling you to monitor a mix of older and newer equipment. Built-in dashboards give shop floor leaders instant visibility into power consumption and machine performance on a single pane of glass.
Track Consumption By Products and Orders
Factory Insights can be easily configured to compute energy use by lines, areas, products, orders, and other preferred aggregations. GenAI assistants enable you to discover deep trends, patterns, and anomalies in your energy data, and provide recommendations for improving energy consumption and costs.
Correlate Production and Energy Spend
Factory Insights makes it easy to understand your energy use and cost per unit of production. Dashboards and scorecards provide insights at a glance. Built-in analytics and visualizations give your manufacturing leaders the tools they need to make better, faster production decisions.
Monitor Energy Use By Machines and Lines
CloudRail gives you the flexibility to collect and report energy data down to the level of specific sensors and meters. Data can be collected for energy, vibration, heat, and other related metrics, then visualized using Edge2Web Power Tools, which are included with your Factory Insights license.
Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization
Key Benefits
- Simplicity - Easily acquire machine, process, and context data from your factory devices and protocols using connectivity services provided by Belden CloudRail.
- Speed - Deliver critical energy KPIs that your manufacturing leaders will intuitively understand and use. Accelerate time-to-value for sustainability initiatives.
- Insights - Enable your data analysts to quickly create custom energy KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards for users at all levels of your company.
- Flexibility - Use CloudRail's edge data processing to normalize and integrate your factory data before sending it securely to AWS IoT SiteWise in the cloud.
- Intelligence - Use built-in Factory Insights GenAI assistants and tools that guide your manufacturing leaders to optimize energy consumption and spend.
- Security - Your data is encrypted end-to-end, and policy-based controls ensure that your teams access data and analytics that are aligned with their roles.
Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization and who are the Key Partners? The solution combines Belden’s OT data solutions CloudRail and BHDO, and Edge2Web Factory Insights. The solution powered by AWS IoT SiteWise.
- How does the solution collect and process energy data? CloudRail connects energy sensors and smart meters, and transmits contextualized OT data to AWS IoT SiteWise. Factory Insights computes and visualizes KPIs with preconfigured dashboards, and provides no-code tools for creating custom computations, scorecards, and dashboards.
- What KPIs are tracked and visualized out-of-the-box? Energy consumption, cost per unit, efficiency trends, carbon footprint, and sustainability metrics on machine, line, site, and multi-site aggregations.
- Can we create custom energy KPIs and dashboards? Yes, Edge2Web Power Tools, which are included with the solution, allow no-code customization of KPIs and dashboards.
- How quickly can we deploy the solution? Deployment is rapid, thanks to plug-and-play connectivity and out-of-the-box dashboards. The solution can be implemented in a few days.
- How does the solution ensure data security and ownership? Customers own all gathered information, as data is sent end-to-end encrypted directly to their AWS account with IAM-based access policies.
- Does the solution support legacy equipment? Yes, CloudRail enables non-invasive retrofitting of brownfield equipment with secondary sensors and smart meters.
- How does GenAI enhance energy monitoring? GenAI provides summaries, anomaly detection, and optimization recommendations.
- What are the main benefits for manufacturers? Energy Use Optimization enables manufacturers to quickly reduce energy costs, accelerate compliance reporting, enhance visibility, and scale easily within and across sites. The solution can also be easily expanded to address a variety of smart manufacturing requirements including machine availability analytics, product quality tracking, workload balancing, and production capacity analysis.
- What differentiates this solution from others? Plug-and-play connectivity, out-of-the-box energy analytics, native AWS IoT Sitewise integration, no-code customization, and GenAI-driven insights.
- Which industries benefit most from this solution? Discrete manufacturing industries including automotive, CPG, electronics, and medical devices. Process industries such as oil & gas, food & beverage, and chemical. And warehouse, fulfillment, and distribution centers.
- Does Factory Insights Energy Use Optimization comply with AWS best practices? Yes. Edge2Web Factory Insights and Belden CloudRail have been reviewed and approved as well-architected offerings via the AWS Foundational Technical Review process. This designation ensures you that Edge2Web conforms to AWS best practices in product development and devops, security, performance, delivery, and support processes.