Read on if you want to keep your factory’s water consumption in check. Discover the potential of our MES solution to help you optimize the use of this resource in your production plant.
It is practically impossible to think of an industrial company that does not use water in its daily operations, either as a raw material in its production activities or as an essential resource in its auxiliary processes for cleaning, maintenance, etc.
In fact, water is becoming an increasingly precious, scarce and costly commodity. At the national level, we only have to look at the restrictions imposed in Catalonia due to drought. On a global scale, Unesco’s forecasts are not very encouraging either: between 2000 and 2050, the increase in water demand in the world’s industry as a whole is estimated at 400%.
How does Mapex help you promote water savings in your production plant?
At Mapex, we know that reducing water consumption in the factory is a real challenge for many of our customers.
Below, we review some of the most interesting features of our MES platform so that, in addition to avoiding penalties, you can save costs and promote sustainability in your organization.
1. Monitoring of actual water consumption in processes and systems
First of all, with Mapex you can control the actual amount of water consumed in the different production processes and factory systems (heating, cleaning, purification, etc.).
Our MES solution automates the capture of signals from flow meters, as well as from other measuring instruments and devices located at water inlet or outlet points.
2. Setting up alerts to avoid water wastage
If your goal is to control water consumption in your manufacturing plant, it is very important that you are able to identify and eliminate those situations that lead to inefficient use of this resource.
With Mapex, you can set up alerts for cumulative or instantaneous water consumption. In the same way as with electricity and gas consumption, our MES solution allows you to create alerts so that the system triggers a warning when established thresholds are exceeded or when, due to a leak or any other fault, water is being consumed where it should not be.
3. Improving production quality
In companies that use water as an ingredient, it is very important to ensure the quality of this raw material.
Mapex can help you ensure that water is always in perfect condition for use, either through the digitization of quality controls or real-time monitoring of process variables (temperature, flow rate, etc.).
4. Developing an effective preventive and predictive maintenance strategy
With our CMMS you can drive preventive and predictive maintenance plans for all your assets. The goal is for you to be able to identify problems before it’s too late and minimize water waste.
Keep in mind that, for example, monitoring certain pressure gauges in real time or addressing leaks during routine inspections is often much more cost-effective than executing emergency repairs.
In addition, adopting a proactive industrial maintenance strategy is a very useful measure to reduce downtime and improve safety on the production floor.
5. Standardization of processes and increased awareness of the effectiveness of the continuous improvement actions
If one of your objectives is that the tasks in your factory are always executed in the best possible way from the point of view of reducing water wastage, this point is of interest to you.
Mapex can become your best ally when it comes to standardizing processes. For example, by centralizing in a single system and keeping all the necessary documentation updated in the plant, digitizing the management of checklists (5S, LPA, etc.) or even facilitating communication in the plant.
As you know, standardization is one of the fundamentals of continuous improvement. In this sense, our MES solution also provides you with totally reliable, real-time information on whether you are hitting the mark with your corrective and preventive actions.
6. Visual management of the progress of water savings targets
In this article, we already talked about the benefits of the visual factory to streamline and improve decision making.
If we link it to water savings, the implementation and use of the Mapex Control Tower module can surely mark a turning point in the way you monitor the consumption of this resource in your company.
Thanks to the creation of dashboards with graphs updated in real time, you can see the evolution of your water consumption reduction targets by system or machine. Having this information, in turn, allows you to detect trends and motivates the members of your organization to be more efficient.
Do you have questions or want more information on how we can help you save water in your manufacturing plant? Fill out this form and we will contact you.
