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processes, and identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption and materials waste, and increase throughput and product consistency. Producers are also continually looking for opportunities to apply predictive analytics, enabling them to identify potential equipment health issues before they become critical and cause downtime, waste and increased costs.

Reducing energy consumption has an obvious positive environmental impact. Industrial machinery is energy-intensive, consuming high power even when idle. To better meet sustainability goals, operators need greater visibility into their facilities’ energy use to address inefficiencies and waste. Energy management solutions support this by providing real-time insight into energy consumption and operating costs. Plant managers can view detailed values, such as idle consumption and peak loads, and see savings opportunities. For example, manufacturers can identify idle machines and optimize machine schedules during offpeak hours, reducing electricity use across the plant floor and significantly lowering overall utility costs. Most facilities can reduce energy waste by ten-to-30 percent and carbon emissions by 15-to-30 percent.

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