Project support boosts global energy management scheme

Nestlé required tools that would complement their self developed energy system to deliver global visibility on energy consumption down to production line level. At Nestlé’s site in York in the UK, which produces iconic confectionery brands such as KitKat, Polo and Aero, engineers wanted better visibility of the boiler house in particular. “We couldn’t see how much energy each boiler was using or what losses we were seeing in the boiler house,” explains Engineering Technician James Stevenson.

Endress+Hauser worked with Nestlé to develop a project execution plan for the initiative incorporating metering and connectivity solutions. As a result, more than 300 new instruments were sized, selected and delivered to Nestlé’s UK sites. Crucially, the new meters were connected to an advanced data manager, the Memograph M RSG45, which not only displays and stores process values for monitoring and analysis, but also calculates energy variables.

Rather than just supplying instrumentation, the idea was to give Nestlé valuable insights into their energy consumption data and support them with reporting and dashboarding of utility data and energy related KPIs. “Previously we weren’t using the full capabilities of our instrumentation and mainly used it for rough data and billing,” says James Stevenson. “But now we’re able to delve down into the efficiencies of the boiler house.”