Our SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system enables an optimized process control – especially in terms of energy consumption. A case in point is the combustion process in a glass melting tank.

Advanced Process Control (APC) opens up completely new opportunities for intelligent process control. The use of energy and raw materials can be significantly reduced, quality levels raised on a permanent basis and production processes more flexibly structured.

The intelligent power management functionality integrated into SIMATIC PCS 7 enables precise evaluation of the energy consumption of each individual unit. As a result, wasteful units can be precisely pinpointed and exchanged with more efficient systems.

Innovative heat recovery systems can reuse the waste heat generated during the glass production to generate electricity, cooling energy, heat and compressed-air.

The replacement of obsolete and inefficient units with cutting-edge technologies offers enormous energy-saving potential. Through the use of variable frequency drives alone, energy consumption can be reduced by as much as 50%.

Our high-efficiency motors for the global market can reduce power loss by up to 40 %. Therefore they contribute to a reduction of production costs, raising the return-on-investment and cutting CO2 emissions.