The costs of not submetering are anyone’s guess
If you don’t have a submetering strategy at your facility, then you don’t really know the costs of not having one. Neither do we. That’s because without submeters it’s difficult to know what that pump really costs to operate. And the costs of lost production and missed deliveries and customer inconvenience or hardship if it stops working? That’s anyone’s guess.
A submeter would tell you that a pump is beginning to use incrementally more power which may indicate it’s about to fail. We think production facilities operate better when electricity to critical systems used in real time is tracked in real time. That’s what submetering can do for your plant.
Managers of industrial operations are looking for better ways to monitor the electricity their facilities use. They particularly want to know where it’s being wasted because that’s just an expense that hurts profitability. With individual submeters installed to track power consumption of specific machines and industrial processes, the costs of electricity become visible.
And it’s not just production equipment that can be monitored. For a fuller picture of a facility’s electricity consumption, then submetering systems can track lighting, HVAC, electric heat and other critical infrastructure. Data can be reported in online customizable energy management control panels. You gain instant insight into where electricity is used and where it’s being lost. What energy efficiency projects will yield the greatest benefits in savings? Real-time energy consumption data will point you in the right direction.
If a motor is suddenly drawing more electricity than it should, that might be an alert of a failure about to happen. With submetering, an alarm can be triggered to tell managers that critical infrastructure is at risk. And you can plan to do something about it before it happens.
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