Energy and Sustainability Manager

Driving impact for a F&B Major

Business Need

To implement an energy-efficient process and reduce overall energy consumption.

A food and beverage manufacturer required to prioritize the implementation of energy-efficient processes through the reduction of resource consumption, usage of green energy, and compliance with environmental mandates. Effectively reducing overall energy consumption required company-wide commitment with visibility into resource utilization across energy categories such as water, air, natural gas, electricity and steam to improve the energy efficiency, compliance with statutory regulations, saving on energy cost and achieving net-zero carbon emission.

In such a scenario, the Energy and Sustainability Manager by LTTS became the solution of choice for the F&B major - which provided planning and scheduling tools to help the company to optimize energy use and supply, and reporting tools helped in monitoring energy consumption, costs, efficiency and other energy-related information.

The Energy and Sustainability Manager solution is comprehensive compliance and standard-driven solution that helped track energy losses across plants. The goal of Energy and Sustainability Manager is to sustainably reduce energy use throughout a business and provides visibility into utilities and plant equipment to drive decision support in energy management.

Energy and Sustainability Manager addressed the challenging and manual process of identifying corrective actions and provided definitive assessment, actionable insights and control over the entire plant’s energy management. It helps track consumption & KPIs, compare/benchmark performances, forecast energy needs, audits driven initiative tracking and enables closure of non-compliances.

Built on ThingWorx and Kepware, the state-of-the-art Energy and Sustainability Manager solution can connect to various equipment including meters, PLCs, SCADA, historians and capture accurate energy consumption data in real-time. It also enables siloed systems to connect and collect information such as the cost of energy and production plans for forecasting energy needs.

The future of energy management demands greater flexibility in accessibility, access to data anywhere, anytime and on any device, boost user experience, disaster recovery and ease of collaboration. Energy and Sustainability Manager by LTTS can be deployed on cloud infrastructure, thereby helping manufacturers achieve greater benefits.

Social and Environmental impact

With the help of the Energy and Sustainability Manager, LTTS helped the F&B major in achieving environmental compliance and standard in accordance with ISO 50000/ 50001. The implementation also ensured that the environmental goals were observed across the organization.

Although traditional methods of managing manufacturing plants are still available in the market, LTTS’ solution helps companies to remain sustainable, successful and competitive.

Business Impact

Implementation of Energy and Sustainability Manager also resulted in remarkable impact for the F&B major and resulted in:

Cost savings to the tune of YoY 10-15%
Development of new capabilities to track & eliminate loss and inefficiencies
Ability to compare and benchmark similar equipment/ area/ plant consumption
Elimination of compliance-related non-conformities/ penalties
Forecast and align policies accordingly
Improve GRI and Integrated Reporting

In addition, the implementation of Energy and Sustainability Manager resulted in significant business innovations, disruptions, and transformations that helped the F&B major to:

Conversion of audit into PDCA (a requirement for ISO 50000/ 50001) cycle
Transformation of energy management as integrated plant activity managed by each department (not limited to sustainability managers)
Bringing Energy initiatives to board room for corporate reporting