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Maintenance Technology, On the Road to Sustainability

Maintenance Technology, On the Road to Sustainability
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RoadToSustainability TECHTTOLOGY Time is of the essence on this crucial journey.. Sustainability has become a key part of this venerable company's corporate strategy and its holistic solutions for customers.

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Rockwell Automation president Keith Nosbusch opened the company's 2009 Corporate Respon- sibility Report, titled "Smart, Safe and Sustainable Manufacturing," with the following observa- tion: "Our mission is to improve the standard of living for everyone by making the world more productive and sustainable. That's what we do every day." Difficult times, he added, had changed this well-known provider of automated and power solutions into "a very different company" than what it had been the year before. Don't be confused by the last sentence. While corporate- leadership statements like this...

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Majo Thurman, director, safety and environmental, stands on the green roof at Rockwell Automation's Milwaukee, Wl, headquarters, beneath the corpora- tion's landmark clock tower. Over time, the hearty sedum plantings (shown in the inset) that cover 48,500-sq.-ft. of roof surface are expected to help generate significant savings in a number of areas. For Rockwell Automation, which had begun preaching sustainability worldwide for itself and its customers, the roof project made sense as both a symbol of its commitment to sustainability and for its practical potential to reduce facility costs....

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As with most manufacturing initiatives, successful stainability efforts at Rockwell Automation and elsewhere depend in large part on the ability of employees to grasp key concepts. simple pursuits have included reprogramming electrical systems to not ramp up on holidays when most workers are not present. Rockwell Automation software and monitoring equipment had long provided this type of 24/7 usage data across the company, but, in Thurman's words, "it took a new perspective to react to it in a sustainable way." For many behavior-based sustainable tasks like these, a little training or...

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always the most economical." His distinction acknowl- edges a variable in the equation: real-time energy costs. In this case, regardless of which chiller units ran most efficiently, he says, it was the cost of energy at the time of use that determined the system's true economy. When this customer needed to run more than two chillers at a time and mix energy sources, says Kaufman, "they didn't know what they were doing, based on real-time pricing. We put in a solution that figured the total economic cost and saved them about $3 million per year, just by picking the right piece of equipment...

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