Defining energy media for an asset

Description

For each asset, define which energy media is assigned to each. You assign variables to the energy media. You can also assign a reference value to the energy medium, for example, so that you can create a relationship between production quantities and energy consumption.

Procedure

To define energy media, follow these steps:

  1. Select an asset in My Plant. The overview of the dashboards for the asset is displayed.

  2. Click "Add dashboard" and select "Energy media".

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  3. Click "New row" to specify an energy medium.

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  4. Assign a parameter to each energy medium. You can assign either an individual parameter that represents the respective energy medium or you can enable the "Sub-asset" button.

    NOTE

    Sub-asset

    Enable the "Sub-asset" button when you have selected an energy medium in a higher-level asset of My Plant and want to show, for example, the energy consumption not only with the value of a single variable but the entire energy consumption of all lower-level assets.

  5. In addition, you can also assign a reference value to each energy medium/parameter pair:

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    By assigning a reference, you define the energy medium more precisely. You can define, for example, that an asset consumes electricity. To do so, you assign the variable for electricity consumption "Electricity_Consumption" to the energy medium "Electricity" on the asset. You can also assign the variable for bottling "Filled_bottles" as a reference, for example, and calculate how much electricity was consumed per filled bottle (UnitConsumption = energy consumption per unit).

  6. Click "Save".

    You switch to the dashboard overview.

Result

By assigning parameters that represent an energy medium and references (xxxUnitxxx), the required KPI instances for energy media analysis are automatically created in the parameter list.

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Clear all energy assignments for an asset

To delete all energy assignments for an asset, follow theses steps:

  1. Display an energy media dashboard.

  2. Click 175158468107.png and select "Edit energy media assignments".

    The list of assigned energy media is displayed.

  3. Click "Delete".

  4. Confirm that you want to delete all assignments.

    No energy media is assigned to the asset.

    The automatically generated dashboard is deleted.