Automation users worldwide are driven to minimize energy consumption, to cut costs and comply with increasingly stringent "green" obligations. Methods range from switching off equipment manually to installing semi-automated shut-down systems. These are crude, expensive or hard to manage.
What is needed is a standardized way to manage energy consuming devices over production networks, eliminating the nedd for external systems and delivering a solution that can be configured intelligently using existing automation equipment.
PROFIenergy enables the deployment of smart energy management strategies over PROFINET. Actual energy savings depend on how end users adapt PROFIenergy to their production environments.