EnergyWise: Industrial Energy Assessment Framework for Sustainable Ops

EnergyWise: Industrial Energy Assessment Framework for Sustainable Operations is a comprehensive framework designed to help automotive and manufacturing customers identify and address energy consumption inefficiencies in their overall manufacturing operations. This framework encompasses understanding customer’s current ‘as-is’ maturity and leads them to create a holistic roadmap that aligns with the overall company strategy to enable transparency and sustainability initiatives across the manufacturing value chain.

Applicable Industries: Automotive, chemicals, industrials, and other related manufacturing industries.

Target Personas

• Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
• Manufacturing decision-makers (COO, CIO)
• Facility operation teams
• Paint shop managers and engineers

This offering assists the customer by providing:

Module 1: As-is Analysis/Maturity Assessment

• Energy Profiling: Map different processes with their corresponding energy (electricity, gas, water, compressed air, lighting) and material consumption. Find areas of high energy consumption in your body and paint shop.
• Equipment Profiling: Baseline your overall equipment efficiency.
• Data Flow: A report on how and which data is being captured from various energy, water and gas meters, and sensors and how it is being utilized.
• Process Flow: Gain insights into how current processes impact your energy footprint.

Module 2: Industry Benchmarking and Peer Analysis Access pre-loaded best practices and recommendations from industry SMEs to inform your decision making. Baseline your processes, equipment, sensors against industry best practices.

Module 3: Use Case Identification and Business Case Development

• Identification: Conduct custom workshops with different decision makers (e.g., CIO, CSO, paint floor section manager(s)) to jointly identify and select use cases relevant to them.
• Prioritization: Narrow down and finalize areas of priority for energy optimization initiatives which align with broader organizational goals.
• Informed Decision Making to Prioritize Investments: Data-driven insights allow for proactive investment in energy-saving technologies and upgrades. ROI and NPV calculations to gauge payback period and quantum for your investments.
• Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Minimize your paint shop's environmental impact by reducing energy waste and carbon emissions. Demonstrate your commitment to environmental responsibility and build a more sustainable future for your business.

Module 4: North Star and Solution Blueprint

• Defining the North Star: Once the use cases have been identified and prioritized, develop a target state, i.e., the North Star, to incorporate state-of-the-art practices, equipment, and sensors.
• Scenario Modelling: Test different "what-if" scenarios to evaluate the potential energy savings, OEE, impact of carbon emissions associated with various upgrade options to arrive at the north star.
• Solution Blueprint: Create a technical solution reference architecture including design principles, logic architecture using AWS services (IOT Sitewise, AWS Kinesis Data Analytics), physical and technical architecture to map to the north star.

Module 5: Action Plan and Roadmap

• Develop a Customized Plan: Keeping your priorities in mind, generate a comprehensive plan with actionable steps for short-term, medium-term, and long-term improvements.
• Develop a Data-Driven Roadmap: Generate customized reports with actionable recommendations for optimizing energy usage. This includes creating dependency maps, complexities, risks, and value delivered for each step along with their targets and timelines.

Customer Business Outcomes:

• Up to 2-12% (~1000-8000 mCO2e ton) energy savings opportunities depending on the scale of the operations.
• Actionable insights from end-to-end visibility on your energy profile to plan for improvements and recognize cost saving opportunities.