Background
Manjushree Technopack, a plastics products manufacturer with multiple plants across India, has taken up energy conservation across their plants as a goal and wants to improve their equipment performance while consuming less energy (fuel, power, etc).
Challenges
Compressors play a significant role in many industrial processes. Hence, they also consume a large part of a manufacturing plants energy. Manjushree faced the same challenge.
Solution
In their research on methods to improve equipment performance and reduce energy consumption, team Manjushree came across EcoAxis’s cloud-based, IoT-enabled analytics solution – axisCONSERVE 4.0.
Because compressors are vital to their plastic production processes, they took the proactive step of monitoring one of their compressors under a pilot energy efficiency program.
They decided to deploy axisCONSERVE 4.0 on one of their 250kW compressors to assess its impact. With the help of this advanced solution, they were able to:
- Gain valuable real-time data
- Identify areas for improvement
- Implement targeted measures
- Enhance the overall performance of the compressor
Results
With the power of this cloud-based analytics solution with IoT capabilities, team Manjushree has unlocked a new level of operational excellence in their facility while making significant savings by reducing their energy footprint.
Over and above, axisCONSERVE 4.0, offers benefits as follows:
- Real-time data collection enabled them to detect that the specific energy consumption of the compressor was below standards
- The operating team took steps to improve a performance and use of the compressor
This has resulted in savings of approximately 335 units of energy per day for delivered average flow of 920 CFM
Energy consumption before servicing the compressor
Energy consumption post servicing the compressor
Specific Energy consumption (kW/CFM) of compressor is improved by 18%.
Specific energy consumption before servicing the compressor
Specific energy consumption post servicing the compressor
Customers Who Trust EcoAxis.
“We chose EcoAxis for its technological superiority, domain knowledge and experience in RPMS (Remote performance monitoring system) which make it a leader in the segment. EcoAxis team has a phenomenal ability to understand our needs and translate them into a reliable solution. We have already considered EcoAxis for 6 overseas projects and would not hesitate to recommend them to others.”
“Energy and operational efficiency improvements were our immediate business goals. We decided to go for EcoAxis’ solution digitizing our complete plant floor with access to analytics on anytime anywhere basis…we have achieved close to 15% energy efficiency…we are confident to achieve a further 10% improvement on energy costs in the current year…and are confident that we would be able to drive up to 10% OEE improvements at the factory level.”
“We are excited by the business gains and competitive edge that axisPLAST4.0 has helped us realize in such a short period. Also it will help us to continuously push the boundary of innovation to stay ahead of our competition. Industry 4.0 being a strategic and an on-going program, it requires a trusted and knowledgeable partner like EcoAxis.”
“For our competitive advantage, we leverage the data of our interconnected machines, material traceability, and SAP business system for getting live KPIs anytime, anywhere, using EcoAxis’ IoT solutions. Our expectations from the IoT solution were very challenging, but I am happy that EcoAxis has surpassed our expectations.”
“We are delighted to see the latest enhancements in axisPLAST 4.0, especially the daily and monthly reports providing all relevant data that we need”
“We decided to use axisPLAST 4.0, the Internet of Things technology, provided by EcoAxis to collate and analyze live data. It has some unique functionalities built specifically for plastic product manufacturers, e.g. operational reports, mold analytics, etc. providing us tremendous value in terms of operational analysis.”
