Efficiency Monitoring

Efficient Energy Management Integration: Achieve seamless energy management, from measuring individual loads to evaluating the efficiency of entire machines, with the SIMATIC Energy Suite and S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor. These solutions enhance energy transparency within your automation system. Furthermore, leverage the Load Management feature in the Energy Suite to mitigate peak loads in industrial settings and evenly distribute loads. Integrated engineering within the TIA Portal simplifies the implementation of production-level energy monitoring.

SIMATIC Energy Suite: Automated Energy Data Acquisition

The SIMATIC Energy Suite, an optional feature for TIA Portal, seamlessly integrates energy management with automation, fostering energy transparency within the production system. This suite facilitates the grouping, buffering, and visualization of various energy data in a standardized manner. The simplified configuration process and automatic generation of energy management programs significantly decrease setup costs. With its built-in interface to SIMATIC Energy Manager, the suite effortlessly incorporates recorded energy data into a cross-site energy management system certified according to ISO 50001.

S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor: Standardized Machine Efficiency Evaluation

The S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor allows machine manufacturers to easily document the energy efficiency of their machines based on six predefined machine conditions, complying with VDMA Measurement Instruction 34179 requirements.

Integrated within TIA Portal, the S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor streamlines the integration of condition-based energy data analysis into machines with minimal effort. Energy and media data can be automatically presented as an acceptance document on the SIMATIC operator panel and in Excel format.

Plant operators also reap benefits: Efficiency data are embedded within the automation system, accessible on the operator panel at any time, and optionally transferrable to SIMATIC Energy Manager via the integrated interface for long-term multi-machine evaluation. This enables operators to monitor energy consumption throughout the plant’s lifecycle, identify inefficient operating behaviors, and implement suitable corrective actions.