As energy costs have gone way up and way down over the past decade, along with all of the stuff that goes along with it from transportation to production, office, other overheads, the ability to get a handle on your energy costs and reduce them becomes critical. We found three decades ago that the act of reliability and maintenance practices can reduce your energy costs from 20-50%, and maintain it, well ahead of implementing any energy efficiency project. That’s right, doing what you are supposed to do in the first place will save energy – more than replacing people even – far more than even lighting and motor retrofits. These can be implemented over time, as well, to continue improving your costs, often paid for from the savings resulting from your R&M program energy savings. Yes, not only can the energy savings pay for your R&M program, before all the other foofy KPI, like OEE, but the direct profits that result can usually pay the CapEx for the other projects (not counting any payback from utilities or government programs). The link at the end will take you to the 2-hour energy seminar we performed in 2025. As mentioned in the podcast, here are the additional resources:
– US DOE software (public – MEASUR, VERIFI, etc.): https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/better-plants/software-tools
– Motor Management (Penrose): https://www.motordoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MotorManagement2.pdf
– Industrial Assessments (Penrose): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265023859_A_NOVEL_APPROACH_TO_INDUSTRIAL_ASSESSMENTS_FOR_IMPROVED_ENERGY_WASTE_STREAM_PROCESS_AND_RELIABILITY_SUCCESS_by_DESIGN
Contact us through https://motordoc.com for additional information or commercial/industrial/utility energy services and consulting.
