Supply shortages across the world on the back of COVID-19, combined with a surging economic recovery in some regions, have resulted in extreme volatility in power and commodity markets. These, along with major shifts…
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Enabling Motor Management to Improve Energy Efficiency
Electric motors consume around 60% of the electricity used in manufacturing industries, and for heavy industries, this number increased up to 90%. Yet Schneider Electric believes modern motor management principles are not applied to…
New Motor and VSD Energy Efficiency Regulations from 1st July 2021
The European energy efficiency regulations aim at improving energy efficiency and product lifecycle performance. Hence, from the 1st of July 2021, a new Ecodesign Directive EU 2019/1781 comes into force
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Capex-Free Funding Alternatives for Energy Saving Projects
Energy and sustainability projects are gaining momentum amongst corporate leaders, but managers still need a solid rationale to get financial approval. In this article, we tackle this matter and explain, with the help of…
Save Motor Running Costs & Understanding How to Forever
Electronic variable speed drives (VSDs) – also known as inverter drives – find uses throughout building, industrial and process applications. The main reasons for their popularity are to save motor running costs or to…
Energy Business Case: What will it take to get yours approved?
Research by Schneider Electric shows energy and sustainability project funding relies more on the energy business case than capital availability. The question is, which of the many investment priorities…
Making Energy Savings: UK Emission Goals depend on SMEs
Global climate change has meant that ‘once in a lifetime’ weather events are becoming regular occurrences. It is why more UK and international companies are committing to carbon-neutral goals and zero carbon emissions across…
Ensuring Sustainability & Critical Engineering Decisions
It is easy to assume that ensuring sustainability is someone else’s responsibility, or that our engineering decisions are too small to affect the bigger picture. That is not the case: there are constant daily…
Manufacturing Automation: Key to Improved Efficiency & Performance
When thinking about advanced factory automation the first places that come to mind are invariably car plants. Images are of robot assembly lines, relatively few people and widespread use of AGVs. However, achieving this…
Pumping Applications: How to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership
Prompted by Schneider Electric, who published a white paper outlining key steps for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in pumping applications, we’ve picked up the batton to explain the learnings we took…
Altivar 600 Drives Water Processing Using Fewer Resources
Schneider Electric has developed the Altivar 600 specifically for the water & wastewater segment to treat and deliver safer water, with improved reliability and performance, lower operating costs and using less energy.
The world’s…