Customer Success Story

Consumption at a Glance on One Platform

The challenge for Smurfit Westrock is to identify energy peaks in their plants, because the company uses every opportunity to operate more sustainably. That is why the paper-based packaging manufacturer was looking for a solution that would identify, monitor, and continuously analyze energy consumption in its plants, starting with those in France.
 

The solution was Power-Adapt. This energy monitoring system provides the global corporation a simple way of measuring and analyzing energy consumption in a wide range of machines and systems. The measurement results can be viewed and analyzed directly in the web-based user interface. In addition to energy, the easy- to-integrate system also measures temperature and humidity in the plants using additional sensors. The Power-Pulse pulse transmitter turns meters with pulse outputs into communicating meters. Smurfit Westrock connected meters for compressed air and other meters, such as for gas, water or steam, to the trans- mitter and can thus easily analyze consumption on the Power-Cloud platform.
 

The added value: After nearly nine months, energy efficiency had increased in 20 plants thanks to the Power-Adapt retrofit solution. This means 57% less electricity consumption outside of production hours. Seven additional French plants are to be equipped with Power-Adapt shortly.