CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: Energy Management Workshop
Instructor: Dr. Robin Kent
Energy management is often seen as a difficult, expensive exercise that has little or no bearing on practical production. Many managers consider it a fixed and uncontrollable overhead and give it a low priority.
In fact, energy efficiency is variable and controllable and reducing energy use can be a key contributor to good productivity. It costs very little to start practically managing and reducing energy usage and cost and companies can realize huge savings with little or no additional expenditure.
This 4 hour Workshop covers all the basics of energy management for plastics processors:
- Management
- Monitoring and targeting
- Services
- Processing methods - injection molding, extrusion and blow moulding
- Operations
Comments from previous attendees:
- Very useful and relevant information - learned a lot (although didn't know much when I walked in the door).
- Breakdown of energy cost decision matrix, power evaluation.
- Lots of simple, practical suggestions. Good outline for a plan to better manage energy improvements.
- Understanding the "fixed" cost of energy can be treated as a variable cost. Quantifying packaging cost and comparing to kwh consumption.
- Real life scenarios and tips on how to apply the information helped a lot.
- Management, service and site areas, not processing as we are material suppliers to processors.
- Quantitative tools for energy consumption measure and improvement.
- Injection molding discussion - there were take always I will share with our plants. I believe we can reduce costs by more efficient means.
- A wide variety of energy savings ideas and practical tips provided. Action plans to save money.
- We are a petrochemical company. It seems to be a good content to our processors customers. Maybe we can use on of our tools presented, with some specific changes, together with our energy management program.
- Energy reduction techniques for facility wide systems, building systems, etc. Injection molding energy savings practices - we currently run 38 injection machines and 1 600 hp extruder
- Appreciate the fast pace and not stretching this into an entire day. I was able to come away with a simple way to evaluate and prioritize cost reduction opportunities.
- Identification of the percentage of the energy bill that goes to different components such as compressed air.
- Top tips page is excellent - overview of the whole program. I also appreciate the straightforward evaluation of energy use by doing energy maps.
- Management and services/site selection of presentation. Attack low hanging fruit.
- Great deal of content will directly apply.
- Dr. Kent was an enthusiastic, dynamic, knowledgeable, entertaining speaker. I really enjoyed the workshop.
- From a standpoint of developing an energy management plan, Dr. Kent's workshop was informative, energetic, and ambitious, in terms of bottom line savings for my company.
- Great use of specific examples demonstrating real energy savings and conservation. Looking forward to employing this information back at the facilities.
- Covered a good variety of energy saving methods.
Dr Robin Kent
Dr. Robin Kent, founder and managing director of U.K.- based consulting engineers Tangram Technology Ltd., is a specialist in this field. In this Workshop, he will use his 37 years of plastics processing experience to demystify energy management for all types of processors.
Dr Kent has helped countless plastics companies to better understand the energy usage in their production plants, starting with where, when, why and how energy is being consumed. He helps managers establish practical measures in the areas of motivation and training, basic machine usage and setting, and performance recording. He offers extremely practical tips for reducing energy use in utilities such as water, compressed air and general building services, and for purchasing energy most effectively.
April 12-14
