A leading research-based biomedical, pharmaceutical company and globally recognised brand, responsible for some of the world’s well-known and life saving medicines, required an energy management system to achieve its strategic target to reduce energy consumption.
The requirement
As part of its commitment to a healthier world, the company has a strategic target to reduce energy consumption and identified a requirement for an automatic Monitoring and Targeting solution to help achieve this locally. It required a solution that integrated data from separate monitoring and metering systems into a single accessible automatic Monitoring and Targeting software suite.
Due to the company’s strict requirement for zero impact on their IT infrastructure, common among many pharmaceutical production plants, it required a solution that had no impact on their network and no software installed on site. An important aspect of the installation was that the solution could be accessed by both internal staff and external energy consultants.
The solution needed to be scalable so that it could easily be expanded to other sites within the group. Ideally it had to be Internet based facilitating the use and sharing of energy data between sites. It was also important that the monitoring and targeting software was both sophisticated but also intuitive and simple to use.
Metering and data collection
The organisation already had a wealth of energy data available within its Schneider Power Logic electricity metering system and also a PI Historian system. 15 minute interval data is transferred from its sites, via iDC, to MRI Software’s secure data centre on a daily basis. Metering data is then immediately available within MRI eSight for reporting and analysis.
In addition, MRI Software provided Enercom’s Multilog data collection loggers for logging interval data from gas and steam meters within the boiler house. This data is transferred from the loggers to the MRI eSight installation hosted by MRI Software.
Energy management solution
The energy management requirements were met using MRI Software comprehensive MRI eSight product suite hosted from its secure data centre. This provides full access to all MRI eSight functionality across the Internet.