VantagePoint Energy

Understand and Better Manage your

Energy Consumption with Energy Intelligence

Energy Consumption is
no longer a cost of doing
business. It is a major driver in
determining how best in class
manufacturers are creating a
competitive advantage.
FactoryTalk VantagePoint
Energy can help you:
• Monitor energy usage based on
demand/availability for increased
efficiency and reduced costs
• Identify energy consumption by asset
and correlate energy information
with production information for more
informed decision making
• Relate kWh to product unit produced
to help reduce costs
• Enable comparison of lines, shifts,
machines, and plant energy usage
in order to improve overall energy
consumption
• Utilize pre-configured content and
reports to save time and money

Energy Awareness and Visibility

“With VantagePoint Energy we have
a more granular level of energy
information allowing us to make much
more detailed adjustments to our
process and production.“
Operations Manager
Large Global Food Manufacturer
Critical to Operations
Improved awareness and visibility to energy resource data is the foundation
for any strategic energy management program – it helps an organization
understand where, when and how it utilizes energy in order to then establish
the necessary scope of its energy savings efforts, define key metrics, and
put the appropriate measures in place. The depth and granularity by which
organizations visualize energy consumption varies greatly – from facility
level or site level awareness to production and product level awareness.
By integrating energy information with production information you not
only gain better insight to how energy influences the bottom line, but also
how energy improvements can ultimately improve production.
What is Energy Intelligence? The Power of an Integrated Energy Model
Energy Intelligence is an extension of a manufacturing By fully integrating energy information in the Unified
intelligence approach applied to energy use within a Production Model (UPM), it is now possible to fully correlate
company’s manufacturing facilities. An energy intelligence energy data with other manufacturing data available at
system can integrate data from islands of energy usage various levels in the model. Customers can now use the data
information (building management systems, building to make smart decisions based on the energy data, and also
sensors, utilities, etc.) and combine it with other operational use the production data to make smart production decisions
data from your enterprise applications (supply chain, that ultimately will improve their energy consumption.
manufacturing, asset management, etc.) to provide visibility
into usage trends, costs and efficiencies. By bringing this
information together in one place, an Energy Intelligence
system can help company leaders understand their current Energy at the Asset Level
energy usage and provide them with information to make Having energy information available at the asset
informed decisions about what actions will provide level is critical to being able to use energy as
the most return. a controlling input to production. Correlating
energy with production information allows you
Something Different to make more informed decisions regarding your
equipment and production – ultimately resulting
Traditional Energy Management solutions are based on
in lowering energy costs and improving
metering energy across the organization and using this
production results.
information to look at behaviors and areas for optimizing
energy use. Energy Usage is measured by overall facility
consumption and the focus is on using less energy
without a real understanding of where the specific Powerful Energy Dashboards and Reports
“energy hogs” are. Improvement initiatives are often
seen as an expense instead of an investment. To have Utilizing energy metered data from sources such as
an effective Energy Management program, you need to Allen-Bradley Power Monitors, Intelligent Drive Control
establish a baseline by measuring your energy usage over products, IntelliCENTER Motor Control Centers, reporting
time to understand why you are using it and to determine content and dashboards are provided out of the box
how your energy consumption is contributing to your to provide visibility into energy consumption. This also
overall cost (e.g. Peak Demand). provides a framework for building an Enterprise Energy
Management solution based on the Unified Production
To take Energy Management to the next level, you Model provided in FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI.
would want to correlate energy usage with production
information for true insights into how your production
decisions influence your energy usage.
With FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy the focus is on
driving the measured energy usage at the main and
sub-station level and distributing it as energy
consumption across the enterprise.
FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy is a model extension
for Energy for FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI. The Energy
component includes an ISA-95 organizational model
extension for energy, as well as energy metering and
energy consumption. The Energy model components
include predefined content, such as energy reporting
and dashboards, as well as production energy reporting
and dashboards. With this capability, users can aggregate
metered energy/consumption data with production
assets throughout the organization to start monitoring
energy utilization. Daily View
 Energy data resides all over
your plant. With FactoryTalk
VantagePoint Energy, you
can access that energy data
from its source in relation
to your production
information in a single,
logical model to create
useful reports and KPIs for
more informed decisions

See how energy information from your operation becomes part of a smart energy and sustainable solution
with informative dashboards and reports.

Standardized Framework to Trending and Plotting

Build Powerful Solutions FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI incorporates two of the
most versatile and powerful trending and plotting
FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI includes some of the most applications in the world. With drag-and-drop simplicity,
powerful reporting components in the industry. You may you can drop simple tags or complete objects onto the
begin by creating an ad hoc report, then when you have it plot. Change time periods, stack traces, switch between
set up the way you want, you can publish it with a simple historian and real-time data.
click of the mouse. The objects are immediately a part of
the model and are accessible from the reports list by
anyone with a web browser and user permission. You
may view the reports directly or via the FactoryTalk
VantagePoint EMI Portal.

Microsoft Excel® Add-In

You can leverage all the capabilities in Excel and have the
means to pull information from the Unified Production
Model in FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI to build highly
effective reports. Touch it up, format cells and regions to
your liking, even create some graphs and charts from the
data. Once you have published the report, you no longer
need the spreadsheet. It is perfectly preserved for you in
the model. And it is not necessary to have Excel installed
on any client to be able to view the report.
Support of Energy Management Systems
FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy is the perfect tool Case Study
to support implementing Energy Management systems
(such as ISO 50001 and SEP: Superior Energy Performance). Energy Savings is the Driving Force for
Combining energy consumption information with
Change for a Large Confectionery Plant
other relevant variables from production allows you to The rising energy costs were driving up
create energy performance indicators and baselines and production costs for a confectionery company
display those in dashboards and reports thereby making that produces 18,200 tons of products in Europe,
the progress of energy savings transparent within an so Rockwell Automation offered a solution using
organization as well as allow employees and operators to Power Monitors (PM 1000 and PM 3000) and
potentially be able to understand how their actions help FactoryTalk EnergyMetrix.
improve energy savings and ultimately help contributing to “In the first step, we looked especially to the
the organizations objectives and goals. quality of our electrical power supply, because
we had some issues with our electricity provider,”
Provide Visibility into Energy Consumption explains the Technical Team Leader. “In the
following steps, over the next year, we would
at the Unit, Machine and Load Level like to investigate the energy consumption for
By looking at energy down at the asset level, you are able each production line with a PM1000 from
to much better evaluate energy savings based on your Rockwell Automation.”
objectives, targets and action plans put in place over time.
By adding FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy
You are able to see how an improvement in a specific
with a connector to FactoryTalk EnergyMetrix,
process area or piece of equipment has an impact on the
this customer can now measure their energy
energy use and/or production for that area. consumption in direct correlation to various
In addition, with the capabilities of FactoryTalk VantagePoint production parameters. (i.e. Energy use by line,
EMI of connecting to all of your operations disparate shift or product) The logging and trending
data sources, you can use this system as the main energy of energy data can be done with FactoryTalk
management system across the facility. Then, your energy EnergyMetrix, while useful reports, dashboards
and KPIs from FactoryTalk VantagePoint Energy,
information is correlated with production information,
can now provide information for energy and
as well as other relevant variables such as weather data,
cost savings throughout the plant.
product and raw material characteristics, transportation
costs, etc. to provide a broader picture of possible energy
and business cost reductions.

Get More Information

For information about ordering FactoryTalk
VantagePoint Energy, contact your local Rockwell Automation
sales office or Allen-Bradley distributor. Or learn more
by visiting http://discover.rockwellautomation.com/energy

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