WinCC/B.Data

Description

In light of diminishing energy resources and increasing energy prices, reducing costs by reducing the consumption of energy is a prerequisite for successful corporate endeavors in the future.

This cost factor can be significantly reduced by influencing energy consumption and utilizing procurement possibilities arising as a result of the liberalized energy markets. In order to be able to tap the entire potential, integrated system solutions are needed; starting at the automatic energy data recording, through to data processing and plausibility testing, right up to the analysis, accounting and forecasting of the relevant energy data and figures.

Benefits

WinCC/B.Data forms the basis for an economic and optimized energy management system and provides you with the following immediate benefits:

• Combined technical and commercial data processing systems

• Transparency in the company through complete energy and material balancing of power generation and consumption plants

• Generation of variables for substantiated statements in order to increase the efficiency of power generation, distribution and consumption systems

• Consumeroriented energy cost distribution and connection to the accounting system (e.g. SAP® R/3)

• Planning reliability through a production-related load and consumption forecast

• Support for the Purchasing Department in energy procurement

• Fulfillment of legal obligations for the monitoring and reporting on greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 emissions)

Functionality

Recording and preprocessing of energy and operating data from upstream systems

• b.data supports the current interface standards such as OPC, ODBC, ASCII or XML, whilst - in addition to the integration into WinCC - also offering direct interfaces to SICAM230, SIMATIC Powercontrol with automatic configuration adjustment

• Preprocessing of energy data in a freely configured real-time accounting kernel including a formula editor for the definition and planning of new calculation functions (temperature-rise computations for boiler systems, ratings of CHP systems, etc.)

• b.data Mobile for the mobile energy data recording including route planning for the meter-reading process

Administration and analysis of energy data

• Automatic plausibility testing and generation of substitute values

• Long-term archiving with versioning, compression and summarization functions

• Measured value editor for the entry and editing of energy and operating values as well as for meter management

• Trender for the representation of current (online) and historical curves (trends) as well as for target/actual analyses

Energy and material balance

• Freely parameterized balancing of energy flows of various media such as electricity, heat, gas, steam and emissions (CO2) in b.data Plant Explorer

• Determination of characteristic data (KPIs, efficiency figures, etc.) with direct reference to production (batches, quantities, etc.)

Energy accounting (Expenses and Revenue Accounting)

• Calculation and allocation/assignment of energy costs to plants and/or customers/cost units according to the costs-by-cause principle. The bottom up (measurement) and top down (allocation) processes are supported

• Flexible modeling of the hierarchically structured accounting in Plant Explorer

• Rates for quantities, flexible price rating with rate and price time series

• Transfer of expenses/revenues into the ERP system (e.g. SAPR/3)

Energy planning

• Consumption forecasts based on production-related factors (production planning) and basic load profiles (typical days)

• Creation of an energy schedule for registration at the energy suppliers

Energy reporting system

• Freely parameterized Report Generator for drawing up balance sheets, reports, shift log books and invoices

• Fully-automatic reporting system with task management, e-mail distribution and document administration

• b.data Intranet/Internet Viewer (WEB Client) for accessing reports and results throughout the company