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Powering Production: Building a More Energy-Efficient Factory
Energy is a fundamental production input, powering machinery, motors, compressed air, heating, cooling and countless supporting systems across a factory. Improving energy efficiency therefore requires visibility into where and how power is consumed. This edition examines the technologies and engineering approaches that can reduce factory energy intensity, including efficient motors and drives, energy monitoring, heat recovery, compressed-air optimisation and renewable integration. It explores how better energy management can support both operating efficiency and more sustainable production.
Editor's Note
Factory energy efficiency is often created through many improvements rather than one dramatic change. Motors, compressed air, heating and production equipment can each contain opportunities to reduce unnecessary consumption. This edition examines energy from inside the production environment, focusing on measurement, engineering and operational improvements that can lower consumption while ensuring that efficiency initiatives continue to support reliability, quality and production requirements.
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