February 6, 2024 • 32 mins
Unlock the secrets to operational excellence with a deep dive into the world of power monitoring in industrial manufacturing. We weave through genesis including technology such as chart recorders to the latest sophisticated systems, providing an eye-opening perspective on process health. Discover how the shift from scheduled maintenance to condition-based strategies, with smart motor protection and IIoT solutions like Eaton's Power Xpert meter and Rockwell Automation's PowerMonitor, is not just reducing downtime, but paving the way for remarkable cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency.
Imagine a world where maintenance teams can predict equipment failures before they occur, and decisions are made not on hunches but on hard data; that's the reality we're discussing today. We emphasize the critical role of power monitoring in staying competitive, optimizing energy usage, and extending the life of your assets.
Choosing the right power monitoring solution is a journey, and we shed light on the critical mileposts to ensure you're on the right path. Learn about the importance of a compelling proof of concept, scalability, and the collaboration between IT and OT for seamless integration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to ECO Ask why, a podcast that dives into
industrial manufacturing topicsand spotlights the heroes to
keep America running.
I'm your host, chris Granger,and on this podcast we do not
cover the latest features andbenefits on products that come
to market.
Instead, we focus on advice andinsight from the top minds of
industry, because people andideas will be how America
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remains number one inmanufacturing in the world.
Welcome to ECO Ask why.
I'm your host, chris Granger,and I'm looking forward to
spending some time with you.
Today we have a new format hereon ECO Ask why.
We're bringing you informationeach month where we really try
to go deep, to give you wisdomand insight that you can take
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and apply to your industrialmanufacturing facility.
Today we started off this newformat working around the idea
of installed asset analysis,understanding the equipment that
you have inside your plant.
Then we moved to hold thesystem design concept.
How do you design systems tomake sure that you're meeting
the need that you're going tohave at the end?
(01:06):
Right, you have all the KPIs,you have all the metrics, you're
measuring, you put all thethings in place to make sure
that system is going to meetyour need.
Then we started going a littlebit deeper.
We started talking about smartmotor protection what smart
motor protection looks like, whydoes it matter?
How you can start applying itto your applications, to your
business, to make betterdecisions.
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Then our last one was aroundthe IIoT solutions.
We have so many newtechnologies out there these
days.
The IIoT has really just madeits way all the way to the plant
for all these connected devices.
Interoperability we talk veryin depth on how you connect your
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machines.
For this episode, we're goingto be talking about a strategic
imperative that is near to me,because this is something that I
was heavily involved with atone point in my career at IIoT.
That's around power monitoring,power monitoring solutions.
So if you're an industrialmanufacturing, the strategic
deployment of power monitoringhas really progressed to where
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now it is a necessity.
You have to have this if youwant to have operational
excellence.
At IIoT.
We have a lot of power experts.
You've heard some of our powerexperts on IIoT in the past and
we'll try to link some of thoseup in the show notes for you.
We're going to talk todayparticularly around why is power
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monitoring important Things youneed to consider as you start
moving forward.
We really have two primarysolutions at IIoT that we try to
point people to when this is anarea that they feel like they
want to get started with.
That's Eaton's power expertmeter and Rockwell Automation's
power monitor IIoT.
Today we have lots of depth andbroad knowledge and
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understanding of powermonitoring.
So if you're listening to thispoint and you want to get
started, connect with us.
We have the experts.
We can talk with you.
We can help you understand yourparticular application and try
to get you some really goodinsight that's going to help you
move forward and put this intoplay.
So now we're going to start off,when we start thinking through
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this power monitoring and howthings have really evolved.
We're going to just look at thegenesis, because we need to
understand the crucial role ofpower monitoring and it all
starts at the beginning.
So maybe you remember the daysof chart recorders.
If you do remember those days,you may be smiling right now
because those solutions theyworked right, they were crude,
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but they weren't.
They were usually tracking onevariable.
That was the main thing, butyou could go back and you could
look at the logs of data andunderstand what that one
variable was showing you and howit changed over time.
It was a system that at itstime would implement it
correctly.
It gave you, let's just say,decent results.
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Now, modern power monitoringtakes on those multiple
variables.
You have tons of insight rightand it gives you a comprehensive
picture of the health of youroverall process.
And as machinery they startedbecoming more and more complex
Just think about how machinesare designed, the ability to
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monitor that power consumptionthat became paramount.
So again, that rudimentarypractice of tracking just one
very, very point of data wasreally a great way to get
started and that laid thegroundwork for what would be
kind of an involved, an evolvedrather and sophisticated
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discipline.
So now, as this has been movingforward, the history of power
monitoring has seen a pretty bigshift in the focus and how the
methodology works.
So in this infant stages again,most of this stuff was
primarily reactive and you wouldaddress things as they occurred
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.
Something happens.
You go out there and you checkyour power, you try to see
what's going on there, maybe puta little logs on.
But as the technology hasadvanced, everything starts
shifting and we're going to talkabout this more and more as we
go to a more proactivemonitoring process.
In current, it's theovervoltage that started
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becoming more and more of arecognizing as it being a
leaning indicator, because itgives you valuable insights into
issues before they can begin toescalate to where something
burns up catastrophic right.
So this began once we haverecognizing these, things
started to change the game ofwhat power monitoring meant and
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how it can make a significantimpact in manufacturing.
So let's kind of dig a littlebit deeper.
Let's talk about somedevelopments in this journey
that helped us get to wherepower monitoring is important.
First of all, you went fromreactive to proactive, because
reactive monitoring involvedresponding.
Just like I said earlier, it'sjust something that went after
it broke.
A failure has happened,something's going down in the
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plant and if you're inindustrial manufacturing right
now and you know you can spendcountless hours of money
responding to events that aredisruptive and it just takes.
It takes you a whole operationsdown, and I went into this
research around the MarshallInstitute and they actually put
out you'll pay two to five timesmore versus if you had just
done some proactive maintenance.
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That's very insightful data andit's someone who used to come
from the motor service industry.
This is the world we lived in.
On plant downtime, you want tothink no things that get
supervisors and managers anddirectors and executives worked
up on plan down Downtime, is it?
So?
If you want to add value to,for your, your facility, you
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have to start get past thereactive maintenance thinking.
And yet then this is wherepower monitoring really started
to grow legs, because thepotential impact was there and
we could see that thattransition was huge, but it
didn't happen overnight.
Right, manufacturers had tostart addressing how to help the
end users, users utilize thatdata to make better decisions,
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because they were just gonna gospend money, just spend money.
They needed to have a reason.
They need to show how what isto return, how can I show these?
And this led to like aproactive approach that we could
show them.
Hey, we're gonna help youutilize real-time data to
anticipate and Address thoseproblems before they come
critical.
And once you start doing that,you're speaking the language of
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the industrial manufacturing.
Maybe you're smiling.
You're not a head right now,because you know where I'm
talking about.
This is where manufacturers hadto go.
Now, again, I talked earlierabout current.
Current is a huge leadingindicator of issues and
Manufacturers begin hey, I thinkI can design solutions to
address this Head on and givethem the end users data up front
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.
That's gonna help them makebetter decisions and this was a
huge, huge turning point.
Early warning signs, worked bylooking at fluctuations in
current, could really give youinsight to the impending issues.
Now that initial monitoringfocus primarily on any energy
consumption and it was it didn'treally think that predictive
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keep capability, but thetechnology available at the time
right, the current monitoringwas not present to the way it
could be used today.
And as current monitoring, aswe're gonna see as we get
further and further, further inthis conversation, we're gonna
shoot, we're gonna kind of givesome insight to how that has
evolved.
This is a big waking moment forme, particularly in the motor
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repair business, when we startedgetting into more the
predictive reliability side ofthe business and Understanding
you know what.
You can look at that current.
You can do current signatureanalysis.
You can find a lot of goodinsight right there on the
health of the motor circuit,what's going on with that, those
assets, and you can do a betterjob of saying, okay, here's
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where this motor is now andhere's to where the performance
was a year ago.
You can see the degradationover time.
So we need to take action.
So that type of stuff was onlyit's only available when you
start looking at the current.
So then you had to startintegrating Predictive
maintenance.
And how do you startintegrating that?
So local maintenance teams wereimpacted by this.
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Just think about this.
You have new technology ishitting a local, the local team,
the main this individuals arethe ones who bear the brunt, and
Mainance traditionally wasscheduled at regular intervals.
Okay, regardless of whateverthe equipment conditions was.
A lot of the stuff just saidthe schedule intervals.
We're gonna do this all basedoff equipment run hours and how
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often plants been running aproduction output of the end
product, whatever it may be.
But this technology, when itstarted to evolve, allow teams
not only be proactive but bepredictive and they will start
predicting when issues wouldarise.
And this that really startedcutting them.
Now You're talking about yougoing from proactive to
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predictive.
You're really cutting down onplan downtime significantly, and
that became possible Becauseyou're leveraging real-time data
.
So you see how the evolutionworks.
You're you're leveraging thatdata.
You're optimizing yourequipment up, key right.
You're doing the work thatneeds to be done, what it needs
to be done and through that,that downtime.
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This is steadily just on thedecline and Technology began to
catch up with the demands andnext thing you know, everything
starts turning everything.
So this is very important.
I'm just I'm pretty excitedabout this topic because this is
an opportunity for everyone outthere.
If you're hearing this podcast,you have an opportunity to
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implement power monitoring intoyour to your system today.
It's not just for certainmanufacturers, no, it's for
everyone.
This is why power, powermonitoring matters, because it
is the cornerstone ofoperational excellence.
You want to start saving some,some money, some funds, be more
cost-effective.
This is a technology to look at.
You want to lower your risk andtake that risk mitigation down.
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This is where it's at, and Iknow we're talking about saving
money, lowering our risk andoperating better.
Come on, this is a touchdownacross the board that continuous
tracking and analysis of power,particularly parameters that
matter that gives you.
It actually empowers you tooptimize your energy usage.
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You can identify yourinefficiencies out there and
then you can start tacklingthose issues head on, one at a
time.
And this is you tackle thosewhen you want, on your terms,
and it's not the unplanneddowntime dictating your day.
This results in significantcost savings, as we talked about
, because you have better energymanagement, but it also extends
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the lifespan of those assets.
Think about it.
You're able to spend more timeworking on them when it matters
and you're reacting to andyou're understanding what the
data is telling you.
Your overall reliability isgoing through the roof.
This is such an indispensabletool, such an indispensable tool
, and this enables you toelevate your operational
performance and again get thoserisks out of there.
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We know you want to get therisk out of your plant and this
is where it's all about and thatsuccess, we know is so
important because the landscapefor industrial manufacturing is
so competitive.
Think about the competitorsthat you up for.
Whatever your product is, theyare constantly everyday thinking
how can they lower their costsand have a competitive market
advantage.
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You start, you can implementsimple technologies like power
monitoring to at least be on thecutting edge to maintaining and
keeping your system fullyoptimized, and then you start
moving in that predictivemaintenance and you start moving
into to really where you'reunderstanding what that data is
telling you and the harnessingthat data.
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If the data actually tells youthat you can get about 30% of
equipment failures, you canpredict them through current
monitoring and start looking atyour power.
So maybe that's the one statthat you want to think about
today.
Okay, how, if I can get 30% ofmy equipment failures Look at
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your the last year how manyequipment failures did you have?
What was the cost of that?
If you could take that numberand impact it and maybe you cut
it cut it down, say 20%, justgive yourself a little grace
there what would that do to thebottom line?
What would that do to yourstress?
Right, this is a frontlinedefense.
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Right here, this powermonitoring is such a leading
indicator and it's going to giveyou some insights that you'll
be able to act on, because it'sgoing to show you oh, this is
what's changing over here andbecause of that, I need to start
addressing this right now.
You'll be looking at spikes,you'll be looking at drops, and
all those are early warningsigns.
To allow your staff, yourtrained people maybe you're part
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of that team to start to put aplan in place and to make those
corrections when you need to, atthe least impactful time.
Right, and you can avoid thosecostly breakdowns and those
nasty surprises.
No one wants to get that callat two o'clock in the morning
that the equipment's down,particularly if it's something
that could have been prevented.
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Now, if you're thinking abouthow you can actually get more
efficiency out of youroperations.
This is where it's at.
You can see right here,firsthand, that you can have
hard data to help you makebetter decisions.
Rather okay, the hard data,because the power data enables
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you to pinpoint the energyintensive devices and then you
can start making betterdecisions, because the goal is
not just to save today, but justreally start changing the
culture and start changing theways people are thinking inside
your plant around efficiency.
So if you're focused oncontinual refinement and
data-driven analysis, that'sgoing to pay you dividends way
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into the future.
So you're going to talk aboutpredictive maintenance and got
to get the operationalefficiency.
Then you even have that riskmitigation and this is so, so
powerful.
I think that's the right word,because think about this for a
second.
If you're looking at thoseanomalies and they're telling
you, hey, something's going onover here, it's giving you that
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early warning sign and thatcould cause issues of
overheating, think about thisfor a second.
You have most electrical issues, electrical failures,
particularly in the motorcircuit, most of the motors and
we saw a lot of motors andelectrical equipment over the
years.
Most of the motors that came infailed because of heat.
What causes heat?
Well, current and the friction,and that is a big indicator
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right there.
So, if you can lower your riskwhile things are still somewhat
of an infant, right, you can seethose minor fluctuations before
they become extremelydisruptive.
It's a safer environment.
I've seen motors where youcannot touch them.
Now, I mean, they're justliterally generated, burn up and
catch on fire.
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You know what currentmonitoring many cases could
identify this and reduce thelikelihood of a fire and
safeguard your people.
So, again, this comes down tofull circle risk mitigation, to
whole point of technology as youmove forward is to make your
facility safer.
Again, this is for everyone,everyone, because you may think
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you know what that's justreserved?
That's just technology that canonly be used for the exclusive
manufacturing sites.
Right, I have to have a certainlevel of technology before I do
this Wrong.
Wrong, because this is scalableand it fits everyone.
Because the journey reallystarts when you decide to put in
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one meter, one meter, into anexisting infrastructure and then
that's going to unlock datathat you never realized was
there before.
This is a great way to lay thatfoundation and get started and
then you can start moving intofuture expansions from there,
but you need to start thinkingabout how can I start right here
, right now.
So any industrial site that'sout there, I don't care how
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complex it is or how simple youcan embark on a power monitoring
journey.
But just by starting with thisand I want to give you a couple
of insights here on how to dothis with the E-Empower Expert
and the Rockwell AutomationPower Monitor so if you're
interested in either one ofthose technologies, go check out
the show notes.
We have lots of links.
We have a blog written outthere on this topic.
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I want to give you lots of waysthat you can get the data to
make better decisions.
Okay, because both of them theystand at the forefront of
technology.
They really are, and theinnovation they have is
unbelievable and they transcendthe boundaries out there.
I'm telling you, it's not justthe data that they're giving you
, but actual insights so you cantake that data.
You can make more informeddecisions real time.
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So if you need help with that,again, we have a team at ECO
that is training this.
We'll have links in the shownotes as well.
If you want to schedule time totalk with some of our power
experts directly about yoursituation, how you can put this
one meter onto this oneapplication and what it can
really do for you.
We have it, we have the teamready that's here for you,
because a lot of this comes downto your IT and your OT.
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Power monitoring actually is inboth worlds, because you have
your information technology, youhave your operation technology
and that has really you'rebridging the gap, because it's
not a silo anymore, because thisis a collaborative tool,
because both groups have tothink about this and they have
to operate together.
Think about power impactseveryone.
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So when you start thinkingabout your facility and a
comprehensive approach to powermonitoring, well, that data can
be used by across the board.
Oh, this is it.
And if you need translators tohelp the IT and OT sometimes
there's a gap the team at ECO ishere for you.
And then, once you have that ITand OT working together, you
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start seeing it whole.
There's new possibilities inusing that data for industrial,
for our operations team.
You can start hey, I can bemore predictive, we can be more
collaborative, we can bring thisstuff together.
It starts opening upconversations that you'd be glad
you did, because the age ofsmart manufacturing is right
here and the core of smartmanufacturing is how you
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leverage data to be better, tobe more efficient, to reduce
downtime, to make betterdecisions and ultimately, it's
all about impacting the bottomline.
That's what it's all about.
So let's figure this outtogether.
How can you take some practicalsteps to move forward Again?
Think big Start small.
I had one time and her guesther name was Tessa, she said
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that.
She said thank you, big, startsmall.
And that just stuck with meBecause it doesn't have to start
with this large commitmentwhere you're just leaping into
the unknown.
You just want to spend thesethousands of just big capital
project.
No, start small.
Again.
One critical piece of equipment, maybe one lineup, one existing
infrastructure, one meter, andthen get some wins.
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Look for that experience teamthat can help you out there.
Build a data as a proof ofconcept to get you some traction
, because you're going to needthat, you're going to need that,
and then, as you get tractionand you feel confident in
yourself, start expanding.
Start expanding that system out, and then you'll be surprised
to have seamless and how adoptedthis technology is and how
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you'll have advocates advocateson your side that are going to
come alongside.
Next thing, you know when youwant to actually move your next
lineup or your next upgradeproject, whatever it may be.
If you have advocates who seethe power of what you're doing
through this monitoring solutionand what is providing them,
you're in a great position ofinfluence and to get things done
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, and that's what it's going totake to be a champion in this
industrial manufacturing world.
So, again, get started with aproof of concept.
So, as you start thinking aboutyour proof of concept, make
sure you got just thosesomething in without thinking
about it.
You really need to take yourtime.
You need to think about whereto benefits.
What am I really trying to pullout of this system?
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To make better decisions, thinkabout scalability.
If this works, how am I goingto scale it up?
And to think about theadaptability to the facility
size.
Right, what's the besttechnology that I need for this?
The install based I have, andI'm telling you, the best place
to learn and explore those proofof concept ideas is in one of
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our labs.
So we'll have links in the shownotes.
If you're in Virginia area, wehave several labs in Virginia
and in Carolinas and Raleigh andColumbia, we have several labs
again.
This is where these labs areall about To come in to throw
stuff against the wall, to seethe technology for yourself and
how it can be applied directlyto your application.
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Maybe just want to sit down andsee the software.
Okay, here's from the hardwarestandpoint.
Here's what it's telling me.
But how do I actually get thatdata pulled into my processor to
make better decisions?
We'll show you that.
We'll give you insight.
We'll help you bridge thosegaps.
Now the initial focus when youstart commencing our power
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monitoring solution, you reallyneed to start thinking about the
equipment itself, because thatequipment that you're going to
be using to pull in the data isa cornerstone and that's what's
going to give you a proof ofconcept.
So you need to make sure thatyou're pulling the right
solution, so it's going to giveyou the tangible benefits
upfront.
So you need to understand that.
And scalability is big.
It has to think of it.
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It has to think past justimmediate gains.
You have to really emphasizescalability as a pivotal factor,
because as you go up toorganizational chart and you
start thinking about people whoapprove these projects, they
want to understand okay, whatdoes the roadmap look like?
How are we going to get thisimplemented across all of our
solutions?
Scalability's matter.
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Then adaptability right, it'snot just about the size across
an organization, right, you needto think about, for how can
this technology scale and adaptand actually work inside the
plant that you have directly?
And then you need to have somealignment, and successful
collaboration is really a startwhen you have alignment within
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your team.
When people are talking thesame talk, they're sharing the
same language.
All that matters, especiallywhen we start talking about
power terminology, because therecan be a gap there.
But when you start using powermonitoring solutions to pull
that technology in, all of asudden you can change that
language to really be reflectiveof how they speak to things
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specific equipment, things likethat.
So now get the key stakeholdersinvolved.
Think cross-to-board,holistically your technicians
you need to make sure you havetheir understanding of what is
important to them.
Management team what do theyneed to see to make better
decisions?
And then the engineering andyour IT.
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That is so crucial.
Don't just don't piecemeal thisstuff together.
You have to think about okay,how can I go across and make
collaboration a part of it,because if you do this without
focusing on how to collaborate,you're gonna miss someone, and
that may be the one area thatyou needed to focus on, to give
you that little bit of boost toget the project going, because
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it's all about getting thosefriction points out of the way.
We've already talked about thefriction between IT and OT.
You gotta address that head-on.
That must be done.
Early alignment, that means youbring them in from the outset,
before you even get installinganything.
But because you need to take aproactive approach to address
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their challenges head-on too.
Because if you want this thingto be just a nice everyone's
singing Kumbaya Yon sittingaround a campfire you better do
the homework up front.
Do it up front and then getthat expert guidance.
Because if you're trying tonavigate this by yourself,
technology moves fast.
Power mooters, meters move fast, tripping device, the
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protective relays these are allgreat things.
To start, all great things,that stuff moves fast.
If you're not in it every day,you're gonna have a better
opportunity of being successfulif you outsource it to experts
or at least bring them in.
From a consultation standpoint.
Again, this is where eco canstep in.
So if this is an area you feellike you, you know what.
I know a little bit about power, but I can use a little bit
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help here.
This is where we can help you.
Then start thinking about thosefoundational devices.
You know, those trippingdevices, the meters, relays, all
that stuff.
Start thinking about how tostart and this is where an
expert can help you.
Then start thinking about howyou're gonna navigate it.
That's what it's all about.
How are you gonna navigate this?
How am I gonna prove this outto my boss, to my boss's boss,
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to my boss's boss's boss?
Right Now, we're gonna provethis stuff out to show them.
Hey, this is where we need tostart thinking.
This is the impact when westart thinking about our power
monitoring and seamless.
It could be the impact it canthen have.
Okay, so now, as you start, aswe're getting right here to the
end, I want you to think aboutsomething, as this technology is
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involved, right, it's beentransformative.
It really has been.
When you look at the powerworld and power monitoring and
how it's been, it's transformedover the years.
It's incredible Eaton solution,rockwell solution.
They're both great.
We've even had power shows inthe past at ECO or we've shown
this.
But you need to take your timeto understand what's important
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to you.
You need to make sure that youare empowering your facility
with the right tools, becauseyou need a safer working
environment.
But you also need to thinkabout what we talked about today
right, efficiency, how to bemore resilient, how to be more
technological advance.
All these things matter.
So you better be taking yourtime to navigate the future and
don't navigate the future aloneAgain, even if it's not ECO, if
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you're not using ECO, use anexpert out there.
Partner with an expert that'sgoing to help you, because we
have listeners that here thatare not in ECO's service area.
That's fine.
Partner with someone who canhelp you.
And if you need help, we havelots of resources.
We have lots of people withinsight and wisdom and
discernment to be able to helpyou make better decisions.
And that's what it's all about,because power monitoring and
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industrial manufacturing itcan't be overstated, it cannot
be.
That's why we're taking thiswhole podcast and we put so much
effort into this, because lookwhere it's all started the chart
recorders and things like that.
The way that things havetransformed now to where you're
looking at current andtechnology and get all these
current signal analysis man,it's incredible and it's also
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imperative.
No matter your size, no matteryour size.
Maybe you just have one line upof switch gear.
You know, chris, what is thatgoing to do for me?
It's going to give you a tonFor that one line up of switch
gear.
Put a power monitor on it andlet us show you how to pull the
data out.
That's going to make you better, because when you start playing
with power expert meter andpower monitor from Eaton and
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start really getting your teamsinvolved and you start bringing
all this power data together toshow the leadership team how to
make better decisions, all of asudden things start elevating,
things start growing and you aregoing to be putting yourself in
position to be extremelysuccessful, and that's what we
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Why do you think we do EcoSY?
Why do you think we have theexperts on staff and partner
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Because we want you to besuccessful.
We want to be your partner.
We want to empower you to makebetter decisions, to have the
best equipment available, tohave the teams ready to
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How do you can look at thisdata and see okay, this day,
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I need to act at this point intime so that this doesn't cost
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Can you meet what therequirement is and potentially
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That's E E C O a s k s why dotcom.
Welcome to ECO Ask why, a podcast that dives into
industrial manufacturing topicsand spotlights the heroes to
keep America running.
I'm your host, chris Granger,and on this podcast we do not
cover the latest features andbenefits on products that come
to market.
Instead, we focus on advice andinsight from the top minds of
industry, because people andideas will be how America
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remains number one inmanufacturing in the world.
Welcome to ECO Ask why.
I'm your host, chris Granger,and I'm looking forward to
spending some time with you.
Today we have a new format hereon ECO Ask why.
We're bringing you informationeach month where we really try
to go deep, to give you wisdomand insight that you can take
(00:44):
and apply to your industrialmanufacturing facility.
Today we started off this newformat working around the idea
of installed asset analysis,understanding the equipment that
you have inside your plant.
Then we moved to hold thesystem design concept.
How do you design systems tomake sure that you're meeting
the need that you're going tohave at the end?
(01:06):
Right, you have all the KPIs,you have all the metrics, you're
measuring, you put all thethings in place to make sure
that system is going to meetyour need.
Then we started going a littlebit deeper.
We started talking about smartmotor protection what smart
motor protection looks like, whydoes it matter?
How you can start applying itto your applications, to your
business, to make betterdecisions.
(01:27):
Then our last one was aroundthe IIoT solutions.
We have so many newtechnologies out there these
days.
The IIoT has really just madeits way all the way to the plant
for all these connected devices.
Interoperability we talk veryin depth on how you connect your
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machines.
For this episode, we're goingto be talking about a strategic
imperative that is near to me,because this is something that I
was heavily involved with atone point in my career at IIoT.
That's around power monitoring,power monitoring solutions.
So if you're an industrialmanufacturing, the strategic
deployment of power monitoringhas really progressed to where
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now it is a necessity.
You have to have this if youwant to have operational
excellence.
At IIoT.
We have a lot of power experts.
You've heard some of our powerexperts on IIoT in the past and
we'll try to link some of thoseup in the show notes for you.
We're going to talk todayparticularly around why is power
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monitoring important Things youneed to consider as you start
moving forward.
We really have two primarysolutions at IIoT that we try to
point people to when this is anarea that they feel like they
want to get started with.
That's Eaton's power expertmeter and Rockwell Automation's
power monitor IIoT.
Today we have lots of depth andbroad knowledge and
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understanding of powermonitoring.
So if you're listening to thispoint and you want to get
started, connect with us.
We have the experts.
We can talk with you.
We can help you understand yourparticular application and try
to get you some really goodinsight that's going to help you
move forward and put this intoplay.
So now we're going to start off,when we start thinking through
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this power monitoring and howthings have really evolved.
We're going to just look at thegenesis, because we need to
understand the crucial role ofpower monitoring and it all
starts at the beginning.
So maybe you remember the daysof chart recorders.
If you do remember those days,you may be smiling right now
because those solutions theyworked right, they were crude,
(03:34):
but they weren't.
They were usually tracking onevariable.
That was the main thing, butyou could go back and you could
look at the logs of data andunderstand what that one
variable was showing you and howit changed over time.
It was a system that at itstime would implement it
correctly.
It gave you, let's just say,decent results.
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Now, modern power monitoringtakes on those multiple
variables.
You have tons of insight rightand it gives you a comprehensive
picture of the health of youroverall process.
And as machinery they startedbecoming more and more complex
Just think about how machinesare designed, the ability to
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monitor that power consumptionthat became paramount.
So again, that rudimentarypractice of tracking just one
very, very point of data wasreally a great way to get
started and that laid thegroundwork for what would be
kind of an involved, an evolvedrather and sophisticated
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discipline.
So now, as this has been movingforward, the history of power
monitoring has seen a pretty bigshift in the focus and how the
methodology works.
So in this infant stages again,most of this stuff was
primarily reactive and you wouldaddress things as they occurred
(04:59):
.
Something happens.
You go out there and you checkyour power, you try to see
what's going on there, maybe puta little logs on.
But as the technology hasadvanced, everything starts
shifting and we're going to talkabout this more and more as we
go to a more proactivemonitoring process.
In current, it's theovervoltage that started
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becoming more and more of arecognizing as it being a
leaning indicator, because itgives you valuable insights into
issues before they can begin toescalate to where something
burns up catastrophic right.
So this began once we haverecognizing these, things
started to change the game ofwhat power monitoring meant and
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how it can make a significantimpact in manufacturing.
So let's kind of dig a littlebit deeper.
Let's talk about somedevelopments in this journey
that helped us get to wherepower monitoring is important.
First of all, you went fromreactive to proactive, because
reactive monitoring involvedresponding.
Just like I said earlier, it'sjust something that went after
it broke.
A failure has happened,something's going down in the
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plant and if you're inindustrial manufacturing right
now and you know you can spendcountless hours of money
responding to events that aredisruptive and it just takes.
It takes you a whole operationsdown, and I went into this
research around the MarshallInstitute and they actually put
out you'll pay two to five timesmore versus if you had just
done some proactive maintenance.
(06:26):
That's very insightful data andit's someone who used to come
from the motor service industry.
This is the world we lived in.
On plant downtime, you want tothink no things that get
supervisors and managers anddirectors and executives worked
up on plan down Downtime, is it?
So?
If you want to add value to,for your, your facility, you
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have to start get past thereactive maintenance thinking.
And yet then this is wherepower monitoring really started
to grow legs, because thepotential impact was there and
we could see that thattransition was huge, but it
didn't happen overnight.
Right, manufacturers had tostart addressing how to help the
end users, users utilize thatdata to make better decisions,
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because they were just gonna gospend money, just spend money.
They needed to have a reason.
They need to show how what isto return, how can I show these?
And this led to like aproactive approach that we could
show them.
Hey, we're gonna help youutilize real-time data to
anticipate and Address thoseproblems before they come
critical.
And once you start doing that,you're speaking the language of
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the industrial manufacturing.
Maybe you're smiling.
You're not a head right now,because you know where I'm
talking about.
This is where manufacturers hadto go.
Now, again, I talked earlierabout current.
Current is a huge leadingindicator of issues and
Manufacturers begin hey, I thinkI can design solutions to
address this Head on and givethem the end users data up front
(07:55):
.
That's gonna help them makebetter decisions and this was a
huge, huge turning point.
Early warning signs, worked bylooking at fluctuations in
current, could really give youinsight to the impending issues.
Now that initial monitoringfocus primarily on any energy
consumption and it was it didn'treally think that predictive
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keep capability, but thetechnology available at the time
right, the current monitoringwas not present to the way it
could be used today.
And as current monitoring, aswe're gonna see as we get
further and further, further inthis conversation, we're gonna
shoot, we're gonna kind of givesome insight to how that has
evolved.
This is a big waking moment forme, particularly in the motor
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repair business, when we startedgetting into more the
predictive reliability side ofthe business and Understanding
you know what.
You can look at that current.
You can do current signatureanalysis.
You can find a lot of goodinsight right there on the
health of the motor circuit,what's going on with that, those
assets, and you can do a betterjob of saying, okay, here's
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where this motor is now andhere's to where the performance
was a year ago.
You can see the degradationover time.
So we need to take action.
So that type of stuff was onlyit's only available when you
start looking at the current.
So then you had to startintegrating Predictive
maintenance.
And how do you startintegrating that?
So local maintenance teams wereimpacted by this.
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Just think about this.
You have new technology ishitting a local, the local team,
the main this individuals arethe ones who bear the brunt, and
Mainance traditionally wasscheduled at regular intervals.
Okay, regardless of whateverthe equipment conditions was.
A lot of the stuff just saidthe schedule intervals.
We're gonna do this all basedoff equipment run hours and how
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often plants been running aproduction output of the end
product, whatever it may be.
But this technology, when itstarted to evolve, allow teams
not only be proactive but bepredictive and they will start
predicting when issues wouldarise.
And this that really startedcutting them.
Now You're talking about yougoing from proactive to
(10:02):
predictive.
You're really cutting down onplan downtime significantly, and
that became possible Becauseyou're leveraging real-time data
.
So you see how the evolutionworks.
You're you're leveraging thatdata.
You're optimizing yourequipment up, key right.
You're doing the work thatneeds to be done, what it needs
to be done and through that,that downtime.
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This is steadily just on thedecline and Technology began to
catch up with the demands andnext thing you know, everything
starts turning everything.
So this is very important.
I'm just I'm pretty excitedabout this topic because this is
an opportunity for everyone outthere.
If you're hearing this podcast,you have an opportunity to
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implement power monitoring intoyour to your system today.
It's not just for certainmanufacturers, no, it's for
everyone.
This is why power, powermonitoring matters, because it
is the cornerstone ofoperational excellence.
You want to start saving some,some money, some funds, be more
cost-effective.
This is a technology to look at.
You want to lower your risk andtake that risk mitigation down.
(11:08):
This is where it's at, and Iknow we're talking about saving
money, lowering our risk andoperating better.
Come on, this is a touchdownacross the board that continuous
tracking and analysis of power,particularly parameters that
matter that gives you.
It actually empowers you tooptimize your energy usage.
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You can identify yourinefficiencies out there and
then you can start tacklingthose issues head on, one at a
time.
And this is you tackle thosewhen you want, on your terms,
and it's not the unplanneddowntime dictating your day.
This results in significantcost savings, as we talked about
, because you have better energymanagement, but it also extends
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the lifespan of those assets.
Think about it.
You're able to spend more timeworking on them when it matters
and you're reacting to andyou're understanding what the
data is telling you.
Your overall reliability isgoing through the roof.
This is such an indispensabletool, such an indispensable tool
, and this enables you toelevate your operational
performance and again get thoserisks out of there.
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We know you want to get therisk out of your plant and this
is where it's all about and thatsuccess, we know is so
important because the landscapefor industrial manufacturing is
so competitive.
Think about the competitorsthat you up for.
Whatever your product is, theyare constantly everyday thinking
how can they lower their costsand have a competitive market
advantage.
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You start, you can implementsimple technologies like power
monitoring to at least be on thecutting edge to maintaining and
keeping your system fullyoptimized, and then you start
moving in that predictivemaintenance and you start moving
into to really where you'reunderstanding what that data is
telling you and the harnessingthat data.
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If the data actually tells youthat you can get about 30% of
equipment failures, you canpredict them through current
monitoring and start looking atyour power.
So maybe that's the one statthat you want to think about
today.
Okay, how, if I can get 30% ofmy equipment failures Look at
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your the last year how manyequipment failures did you have?
What was the cost of that?
If you could take that numberand impact it and maybe you cut
it cut it down, say 20%, justgive yourself a little grace
there what would that do to thebottom line?
What would that do to yourstress?
Right, this is a frontlinedefense.
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Right here, this powermonitoring is such a leading
indicator and it's going to giveyou some insights that you'll
be able to act on, because it'sgoing to show you oh, this is
what's changing over here andbecause of that, I need to start
addressing this right now.
You'll be looking at spikes,you'll be looking at drops, and
all those are early warningsigns.
To allow your staff, yourtrained people maybe you're part
(13:59):
of that team to start to put aplan in place and to make those
corrections when you need to, atthe least impactful time.
Right, and you can avoid thosecostly breakdowns and those
nasty surprises.
No one wants to get that callat two o'clock in the morning
that the equipment's down,particularly if it's something
that could have been prevented.
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Now, if you're thinking abouthow you can actually get more
efficiency out of youroperations.
This is where it's at.
You can see right here,firsthand, that you can have
hard data to help you makebetter decisions.
Rather okay, the hard data,because the power data enables
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you to pinpoint the energyintensive devices and then you
can start making betterdecisions, because the goal is
not just to save today, but justreally start changing the
culture and start changing theways people are thinking inside
your plant around efficiency.
So if you're focused oncontinual refinement and
data-driven analysis, that'sgoing to pay you dividends way
(15:04):
into the future.
So you're going to talk aboutpredictive maintenance and got
to get the operationalefficiency.
Then you even have that riskmitigation and this is so, so
powerful.
I think that's the right word,because think about this for a
second.
If you're looking at thoseanomalies and they're telling
you, hey, something's going onover here, it's giving you that
(15:27):
early warning sign and thatcould cause issues of
overheating, think about thisfor a second.
You have most electrical issues, electrical failures,
particularly in the motorcircuit, most of the motors and
we saw a lot of motors andelectrical equipment over the
years.
Most of the motors that came infailed because of heat.
What causes heat?
Well, current and the friction,and that is a big indicator
(15:52):
right there.
So, if you can lower your riskwhile things are still somewhat
of an infant, right, you can seethose minor fluctuations before
they become extremelydisruptive.
It's a safer environment.
I've seen motors where youcannot touch them.
Now, I mean, they're justliterally generated, burn up and
catch on fire.
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You know what currentmonitoring many cases could
identify this and reduce thelikelihood of a fire and
safeguard your people.
So, again, this comes down tofull circle risk mitigation, to
whole point of technology as youmove forward is to make your
facility safer.
Again, this is for everyone,everyone, because you may think
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you know what that's justreserved?
That's just technology that canonly be used for the exclusive
manufacturing sites.
Right, I have to have a certainlevel of technology before I do
this Wrong.
Wrong, because this is scalableand it fits everyone.
Because the journey reallystarts when you decide to put in
(16:56):
one meter, one meter, into anexisting infrastructure and then
that's going to unlock datathat you never realized was
there before.
This is a great way to lay thatfoundation and get started and
then you can start moving intofuture expansions from there,
but you need to start thinkingabout how can I start right here
, right now.
So any industrial site that'sout there, I don't care how
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complex it is or how simple youcan embark on a power monitoring
journey.
But just by starting with thisand I want to give you a couple
of insights here on how to dothis with the E-Empower Expert
and the Rockwell AutomationPower Monitor so if you're
interested in either one ofthose technologies, go check out
the show notes.
We have lots of links.
We have a blog written outthere on this topic.
(17:40):
I want to give you lots of waysthat you can get the data to
make better decisions.
Okay, because both of them theystand at the forefront of
technology.
They really are, and theinnovation they have is
unbelievable and they transcendthe boundaries out there.
I'm telling you, it's not justthe data that they're giving you
, but actual insights so you cantake that data.
You can make more informeddecisions real time.
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So if you need help with that,again, we have a team at ECO
that is training this.
We'll have links in the shownotes as well.
If you want to schedule time totalk with some of our power
experts directly about yoursituation, how you can put this
one meter onto this oneapplication and what it can
really do for you.
We have it, we have the teamready that's here for you,
because a lot of this comes downto your IT and your OT.
(18:23):
Power monitoring actually is inboth worlds, because you have
your information technology, youhave your operation technology
and that has really you'rebridging the gap, because it's
not a silo anymore, because thisis a collaborative tool,
because both groups have tothink about this and they have
to operate together.
Think about power impactseveryone.
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So when you start thinkingabout your facility and a
comprehensive approach to powermonitoring, well, that data can
be used by across the board.
Oh, this is it.
And if you need translators tohelp the IT and OT sometimes
there's a gap the team at ECO ishere for you.
And then, once you have that ITand OT working together, you
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start seeing it whole.
There's new possibilities inusing that data for industrial,
for our operations team.
You can start hey, I can bemore predictive, we can be more
collaborative, we can bring thisstuff together.
It starts opening upconversations that you'd be glad
you did, because the age ofsmart manufacturing is right
here and the core of smartmanufacturing is how you
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leverage data to be better, tobe more efficient, to reduce
downtime, to make betterdecisions and ultimately, it's
all about impacting the bottomline.
That's what it's all about.
So let's figure this outtogether.
How can you take some practicalsteps to move forward Again?
Think big Start small.
I had one time and her guesther name was Tessa, she said
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that.
She said thank you, big, startsmall.
And that just stuck with meBecause it doesn't have to start
with this large commitmentwhere you're just leaping into
the unknown.
You just want to spend thesethousands of just big capital
project.
No, start small.
Again.
One critical piece of equipment, maybe one lineup, one existing
infrastructure, one meter, andthen get some wins.
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Look for that experience teamthat can help you out there.
Build a data as a proof ofconcept to get you some traction
, because you're going to needthat, you're going to need that,
and then, as you get tractionand you feel confident in
yourself, start expanding.
Start expanding that system out, and then you'll be surprised
to have seamless and how adoptedthis technology is and how
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you'll have advocates advocateson your side that are going to
come alongside.
Next thing, you know when youwant to actually move your next
lineup or your next upgradeproject, whatever it may be.
If you have advocates who seethe power of what you're doing
through this monitoring solutionand what is providing them,
you're in a great position ofinfluence and to get things done
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, and that's what it's going totake to be a champion in this
industrial manufacturing world.
So, again, get started with aproof of concept.
So, as you start thinking aboutyour proof of concept, make
sure you got just thosesomething in without thinking
about it.
You really need to take yourtime.
You need to think about whereto benefits.
What am I really trying to pullout of this system?
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To make better decisions, thinkabout scalability.
If this works, how am I goingto scale it up?
And to think about theadaptability to the facility
size.
Right, what's the besttechnology that I need for this?
The install based I have, andI'm telling you, the best place
to learn and explore those proofof concept ideas is in one of
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our labs.
So we'll have links in the shownotes.
If you're in Virginia area, wehave several labs in Virginia
and in Carolinas and Raleigh andColumbia, we have several labs
again.
This is where these labs areall about To come in to throw
stuff against the wall, to seethe technology for yourself and
how it can be applied directlyto your application.
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Maybe just want to sit down andsee the software.
Okay, here's from the hardwarestandpoint.
Here's what it's telling me.
But how do I actually get thatdata pulled into my processor to
make better decisions?
We'll show you that.
We'll give you insight.
We'll help you bridge thosegaps.
Now the initial focus when youstart commencing our power
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monitoring solution, you reallyneed to start thinking about the
equipment itself, because thatequipment that you're going to
be using to pull in the data isa cornerstone and that's what's
going to give you a proof ofconcept.
So you need to make sure thatyou're pulling the right
solution, so it's going to giveyou the tangible benefits
upfront.
So you need to understand that.
And scalability is big.
It has to think of it.
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It has to think past justimmediate gains.
You have to really emphasizescalability as a pivotal factor,
because as you go up toorganizational chart and you
start thinking about people whoapprove these projects, they
want to understand okay, whatdoes the roadmap look like?
How are we going to get thisimplemented across all of our
solutions?
Scalability's matter.
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Then adaptability right, it'snot just about the size across
an organization, right, you needto think about, for how can
this technology scale and adaptand actually work inside the
plant that you have directly?
And then you need to have somealignment, and successful
collaboration is really a startwhen you have alignment within
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your team.
When people are talking thesame talk, they're sharing the
same language.
All that matters, especiallywhen we start talking about
power terminology, because therecan be a gap there.
But when you start using powermonitoring solutions to pull
that technology in, all of asudden you can change that
language to really be reflectiveof how they speak to things
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specific equipment, things likethat.
So now get the key stakeholdersinvolved.
Think cross-to-board,holistically your technicians
you need to make sure you havetheir understanding of what is
important to them.
Management team what do theyneed to see to make better
decisions?
And then the engineering andyour IT.
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That is so crucial.
Don't just don't piecemeal thisstuff together.
You have to think about okay,how can I go across and make
collaboration a part of it,because if you do this without
focusing on how to collaborate,you're gonna miss someone, and
that may be the one area thatyou needed to focus on, to give
you that little bit of boost toget the project going, because
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it's all about getting thosefriction points out of the way.
We've already talked about thefriction between IT and OT.
You gotta address that head-on.
That must be done.
Early alignment, that means youbring them in from the outset,
before you even get installinganything.
But because you need to take aproactive approach to address
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their challenges head-on too.
Because if you want this thingto be just a nice everyone's
singing Kumbaya Yon sittingaround a campfire you better do
the homework up front.
Do it up front and then getthat expert guidance.
Because if you're trying tonavigate this by yourself,
technology moves fast.
Power mooters, meters move fast, tripping device, the
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protective relays these are allgreat things.
To start, all great things,that stuff moves fast.
If you're not in it every day,you're gonna have a better
opportunity of being successfulif you outsource it to experts
or at least bring them in.
From a consultation standpoint.
Again, this is where eco canstep in.
So if this is an area you feellike you, you know what.
I know a little bit about power, but I can use a little bit
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help here.
This is where we can help you.
Then start thinking about thosefoundational devices.
You know, those trippingdevices, the meters, relays, all
that stuff.
Start thinking about how tostart and this is where an
expert can help you.
Then start thinking about howyou're gonna navigate it.
That's what it's all about.
How are you gonna navigate this?
How am I gonna prove this outto my boss, to my boss's boss,
(25:57):
to my boss's boss's boss?
Right Now, we're gonna provethis stuff out to show them.
Hey, this is where we need tostart thinking.
This is the impact when westart thinking about our power
monitoring and seamless.
It could be the impact it canthen have.
Okay, so now, as you start, aswe're getting right here to the
end, I want you to think aboutsomething, as this technology is
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involved, right, it's beentransformative.
It really has been.
When you look at the powerworld and power monitoring and
how it's been, it's transformedover the years.
It's incredible Eaton solution,rockwell solution.
They're both great.
We've even had power shows inthe past at ECO or we've shown
this.
But you need to take your timeto understand what's important
(26:41):
to you.
You need to make sure that youare empowering your facility
with the right tools, becauseyou need a safer working
environment.
But you also need to thinkabout what we talked about today
right, efficiency, how to bemore resilient, how to be more
technological advance.
All these things matter.
So you better be taking yourtime to navigate the future and
don't navigate the future aloneAgain, even if it's not ECO, if
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you're not using ECO, use anexpert out there.
Partner with an expert that'sgoing to help you, because we
have listeners that here thatare not in ECO's service area.
That's fine.
Partner with someone who canhelp you.
And if you need help, we havelots of resources.
We have lots of people withinsight and wisdom and
discernment to be able to helpyou make better decisions.
And that's what it's all about,because power monitoring and
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industrial manufacturing itcan't be overstated, it cannot
be.
That's why we're taking thiswhole podcast and we put so much
effort into this, because lookwhere it's all started the chart
recorders and things like that.
The way that things havetransformed now to where you're
looking at current andtechnology and get all these
current signal analysis man,it's incredible and it's also
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imperative.
No matter your size, no matteryour size.
Maybe you just have one line upof switch gear.
You know, chris, what is thatgoing to do for me?
It's going to give you a tonFor that one line up of switch
gear.
Put a power monitor on it andlet us show you how to pull the
data out.
That's going to make you better, because when you start playing
with power expert meter andpower monitor from Eaton and
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Rockwell and you start couplingyour IT and OT together and you
start really getting your teamsinvolved and you start bringing
all this power data together toshow the leadership team how to
make better decisions, all of asudden things start elevating,
things start growing and you aregoing to be putting yourself in
position to be extremelysuccessful, and that's what we
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want at Eco.
Why do you think we do EcoSY?
Why do you think we have theexperts on staff and partner
with the best manufacturers?
Because we want you to besuccessful.
We want to be your partner.
We want to empower you to makebetter decisions, to have the
best equipment available, tohave the teams ready to
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understand the data that comesin.
How do you can look at thisdata and see okay, this day,
this trend is telling me this.
I need to act at this point intime so that this doesn't cost
me, so I don't get that twoo'clock in the morning phone
call that nobody wants to get.
So ensure production numbers.
Can you meet what therequirement is and potentially
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exceed them?
Safer, more efficient, moreadvanced that's what it's all
about.
So let us know what you thinkof the new eco as why this has
been.
It's been fun for me just to sitback.
We're really digging deep.
We're trying each and everymonth.
Now we also have a mailing list, so every month we send out
(29:39):
insights, we send out tips, wesend out all sorts of good
information around thesetechnologies.
So if you if you're not on thatreach out to us.
We want to connect with you foran electrical equipment company
to be able to serve you better,to give you insight, be able to
give you the resources that youneed to make better decisions.
Also, share the podcast thatwith other people.
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This is what we just.
We do this simply because wewant to serve our customers
better and people that we try toserve.
So share this out with someoneelse.
Maybe you know someone inmaintenance or liability or
engineering and you thought thiswas a good, some good
information here.
Share it out with them.
This may be encouraging to themas well.
Maybe somebody they're ready tostart a power monitoring that
haven't even considered thistechnology.
You know what this could be agreat way, so share it out with
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them.
Give us the rating review.
If you get a chance, that'd begreat.
Just a five star rating.
Who did one or two centersreview that?
Those are always great.
We would love to hear from youso we'll have a contact us will
have a way for you to contact usinside the show notes.
We'd love to hear from you.
We love to get your insight,things you need help with.
Again, our team and eco is ready, willing, able, on the stand by
(30:44):
at all times.
I know our power team and butin all the states, all the
service areas, the teams that wehave, they're just absolutely
incredible.
I can't say enough.
I mean, eco has been aroundalmost a hundred years now.
It's it's incredible we'recoming up on on a century.
The leadership team, the way weput people out there.
We really is people and ideasover products is still what we
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live.
We have new systems.
We have an e-commerce system.
Now that is just absolutelyphenomenal, the whole online
shopping experience.
So check us out, go check us.
Eco onlinecom is where how youcan connect with us there.
We have lots of ways we canserve you.
If you wanted to look at ourdigital storefront, where we can
get, we can come in.
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We'll punch out catalogs andreally integrate with your, your
, your, vmis and things likethat.
We're here, we're ready and wehave the teams ready to rock and
roll.
So hopefully you enjoyed thisone again.
It's an honor to be able to dothis.
Thank you so much for listeningand you know what's coming next
, right, keep asking why.
Thank you for listening to ecos y.
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