Emerson has introduced its Energy Manager solution, a pre-engineered hardware and software offering designed to simplify industrial electricity monitoring.

The solution monitors asset energy use in real time, providing manufacturers with deeper insight into energy consumption and operating costs. This helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions and maximise energy and operational efficiency.

Emerson's Energy Manager solution provides real-time energy measurements, allowing plant managers to quickly view detailed values and identify savings opportunities, such as idle consumption and peak loads.

The dashboard provides asset-specific energy use, associated costs, and CO2 emissions for up to 10 end points, allowing organisations to identify idle machines and optimise machine schedules during off-peak hours. This can reduce electricity use across the plant floor and significantly lower overall utility costs.

According to Emerson, the solution is highly scalable and easy to integrate with new or existing energy meters, making commissioning and return-on-investment quick and easy.

The software is available either preinstalled on edge hardware or as a stand-alone application that can be installed in a virtualised environment.

"Reliable, accurate monitoring of energy costs and emissions is becoming invaluable to organisations," said Eugenio Silva, intelligent automation product manager with Emerson’s discrete automation business. "Our new Energy Manager solution gives operators, facility managers and corporate sustainability teams greater visibility and deeper understanding of energy consumption and operating costs at all times. This can better position companies to track and reach targets, comply with regulations, and reliably reduce environmental impact."