Written by Ski season is on its peak and with it the energy intense usage of snow canons, snow groomers, cable cars and ropeways. They all consume energy to make ski tourists a happy day. Studies in Europe and Canada have shown that the biggest contribution by far (>60%) comes from travelling to the ski resort itself. The indirect impact of travelling has way more impact to energy consumption and C02 footprint as its operation.
Michael Bruckhaus, Managing Director
What has this to do with Predictive Maintenance and its contribution to sustainability? As so often in life, it’s the unobvious that makes the difference. In this case: the unaccounted actions and their contribution to the total impact. You will find a similar situation reviewing the impact of Predictive Maintenance to drive sustainability.
Equal to the ski tourism sample above, such indirect effects are often not seen but can have a huge impact of the overall result of sustainability. As you may assume, you will find these kinds of surprises often if you look beyond your own garden.
Energy savings: the underestimated side effects of Predictive Maintenance
Therefore, we left our own garden and discovered new territory: We were looking for possible governmental subsidiaries, funds or benefits for development or application of Predictive Maintenance Solutions. And we discovered that the indirect effects of Predictive Maintenance open the door to governmental support for energy or CO2 savings.
Based on this, we reflected specifically how Predictive Maintenance makes its contribution to drive sustainability based on energy savings:
Energy savings – difficult to count, important to consider
Many of these savings are indirect consequences of Predictive Maintenance and can hardly be quantified. You may review your own spare part inventory or requests for service technicians and contractors to get an idea about the indirect savings.
- How many times in the last 24 months did you call a service technician because of an unplanned breakdown?
- How many spare parts / which spare part value do you have on stock, which haven’t been used in the last 10 years? What’s the value?
- How many times in the last 24 months did you have emergency shipments by airfreight of a spare part?
Predictive Maintenance take away
Besides the obvious benefits of Predictive Maintenance, it is the underestimated indirect impact on energy consumption which makes this technology even more interesting.
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