“eSight can be accessed from any PC on the corporate network. This flexibility was absolutely crucial; eSight will revolutionise the way we manage energy”
Paul Freeman
Technical Director, Charnwood Forest Brick
Michelmersh
About Michelmersh
The Michelmersh Group produces over 75 million bricks per annum. The process of brick manufacturing requires the use of gas fired kilns and dryers, which account for the majority of the energy being used.
Energy data was being collected and monitored both manually and via data loggers. However, Michelmersh found they were limited with the level of control and visibility they had over their energy consumption. This was due to the lack pf a dedicated M&T system to manage the energy and production data.
The Requirement
Michelmersh required the ability to analyse production data with a view to gathering information on performance efficiency. The process of data collection needed automating to save time, and complex historical energy data needed importing.
Michelmerse also wished to be able to alarm anomalies in energy profiles and to analyse tariff data against energy consumption.
The Michelmersh group of companies fall within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Another key requirement for the effective management of emissions data across the five sites.
The Solution
Michelmersh purchased eSight for use throughout the Group. Complex historical energy data that had previously been collected and input into spreadsheets was imported into eSight during commissioning.
The eSight data import service was configured to import data from a range of electricity, gas and water meters via a combination of third party logging equipment and manual reads.
The facility to record production data was configured. This provided Michelmersh with the much improved ability to analyse performance efficiency and included analysis of factors such as kiln firing energy against product manufactured.
Deployment of the eSight Emissions Trading Module also enabled the detailed analysis of emissions across all four sites, thus helping to make decisions on when to trade allowances.