Rockwell Automation Announces Sustainable Manufacturing Portfolio

Control Engineering (8/13) – Rockwell Automation has developed a new portfolio of sustainable manufacturing solutions that it claims can help companies save up to $6 billion a year, or about 10% of the total U.S. industrial electrical energy costs, by capitalizing on Smart Grid initiatives with existing technologies…"By combining OEE (overall equipment effectiveness), a key performance indicator used by many manufacturers, with an energy model to create an energy blueprint--or 'greenprint'--for any production process, we can develop a long-term strategy for smarter energy use," said Terry Gebert, vice president and general manager of Rockwell Automation Global Solutions. "Manufacturers can begin to capture actual energy use and add it to their bill of materials and other production records," he added.