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Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency
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Overview
Success factor Energy Efficiency
Siemens helps you to optimize your energy demand, reduce
your energy costs and increase your competitive advantage
Industry is facing enormous challenges:
Production processes need to be highly productive, energy-
efficient, and resource-saving. Siemens is offering an energy
efficiency concept that continually and systematically reduces
the power consumption of machines and equipment and
thereby boosts the competitive advantage of industrial produc-
ers. When implementing energy-efficient solutions, Siemens not
only assesses the production process as a whole, but also
evaluates each individual production step.
1 Product Design
Improve your confidence in planning outcomes! It is important to
know the costs associated with the operation of a production
machine so that these can be taken into account in the machine
design. For example, the SinaSave software application can
help you to calculate how soon you will recoup your investment
if you purchase an energy-efficient drive. The Mechatronic
Support simulation package will also provide you with the means
to test and optimize your machine concept, Helping you to save
time, energy and operating expenses. See also the SIZER for
Siemens Drives engineering tool.
SinaSave:
/sinasave
SIZER for Siemens Drives:
/sizer
2 Production Planning
Make your plant more profitable! It is possible to carry out an on-
screen simulation of individual machines and the entire produc-
tion process. By doing this, you can optimize the efficiency and
productivity of production processes. For example, you can use
the digital models and analysis functions provided by the Plant
Simulation tool in order to optimize the motion sequences of your
machines, prevent load peak overlaps, recover energy and
optimize speeds.
Plant Simulation:
/tecnomatix
3 Production Engineering
Optimize the workflow! The SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO
management tool helps you to achieve efficient control of energy
and costs. But this requires perfectly coordinated communica-
tion and operation between hardware and software. Using the
TIA Portal engineering framework, for example, it is easy to set
up and optimize every single engineering process. You can then
see at a glance the areas in your plant that can be made more
productive and environmentally friendly. See also the STARTER
commissioning tool and the SINAMICS Startdrive commission-
ing tool.
SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO:
/energymanagerpro
TIA-Portal:
/tia-portal
STARTER:
/starter
SINAMICS Startdrive:
/startdrive
4 Production
Use innovative drive technology to reduce your energy con-
sumption! The energy-efficient components and systems
developed by Siemens can cut the energy consumption of a
plant. Important components in an energy-efficient plant are, for
example, frequency inverters with regenerative feedback func-
tions for applications with variable speeds or soft starters for
fixed-speed drives. With its PROFIenergy system, Siemens is
also offering solutions that permit centralized shutdown of loads
or entire production units during production breaks – a vendor-
and device-neutral interface for flexible use over short or long
production breaks.
5 Services
Improve your productivity and efficiency while reducing total
costs! With its Energy & Environmental Services, Siemens is
offering a tailored consultancy that will provide you with the
necessary support in designing and implementing systematic
energy and environmental management solutions. It will give you
the satisfaction of achieving maximum energy efficiency
throughout your company.
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More information
Further information about energy efficiency including references from industrial production can be found at
/energy-efficiency
/energysaving
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5 Services
1 Product Design
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2 Production Planning
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