Toyota Motor Europe needed to create a single, centralized energy monitoring system (EnMS) to communicate with all plant devices and collect data automatically. With disparate data models and varying data collection capabilities in each plant, Toyota struggled to compare energy use in each plant. It implemented AVEVA™ PI System™ to standardize data models and monitor energy use.
“We’re empowering people to do things, giving our engineers the capability to understand the processes and track if what we’re implementing is working.”
Kevin Rosati, Production Engineer, Plant and Environment Department, Toyota Motor Europe
Goals
- Reduce energy consumption at Toyota’s European production plants
- Create a single, centralized energy monitoring system (EnMS) to communicate with all plant devices and collect data automatically
Challenges
- Different plants had large disparities in data monitoring capabilities and lacked a standard data model
- The lack of standardization made it hard to compare data and create benchmarks for energy consumption
Solution
Results
- It now takes less than one minute to validate and share data
- In one plant, engineers are experimenting with predictive analytics using Power BI
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