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Industrial IoT edge software provider ei3 launched a new resource and energy monitoring application called SUSTAIN. This new app is intended to give manufacturers a company-wide measurement tool to make 
efficient use of resources by reducing cost and scrap rates to achieve more sustainable operations. SUSTAIN is built upon ei3’s “Zero Trust” secure architecture and powerful AI tools providing a unique systematic method for tracking, analyzing, and optimizing the use of resources.
Given the increasing scarcity of resources, sustainability is a big concern for machine builders and their manufacturing customers. SUSTAIN provides all relevant insights on process sustainability performance, allowing manufacturers to make the best use of available resources while at the same time minimizing environmental impact and reducing cost.
SUSTAIN uses sophisticated algorithms to normalize the consumption of electric energy, pneumatic energy, water, and other resources to account for changes in environmental conditions, production schedules, and the final product. SUSTAIN helps plant floor personnel meet the challenging requests of their corporate Sustainability departments by delivering Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that show the impact of an organization’s operations, such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste production, and the aggregated consumption of resources for the entire enterprise.
The analytical insights delivered by SUSTAIN are intended to help organizations transform into proactive, intelligent, and externally focused businesses. SUSTAIN also catalyzes the process of compliance reporting by comparing KPI numbers against mandated industry benchmarks, giving customers tangible improvement measurements. With SUSTAIN, Environmental/Social Governance (ESG) scorecards are based on the facts that are necessary for regulatory compliance.
The first ei3 partner to offer SUSTAIN is the German plastics equipment manufacturer, Coperion, who is demonstrating the app connected to an extruder operating at their Research Center in Stuttgart. SUSTAIN correlates Coperion machine settings with energy consumption, allowing for the automatic fine-tuning of recipes and achieving improved machine performance.
SUSTAIN joins ei3’s existing suite of IoT applications that include MONITOR, SERVICE, PRODUCTION, DOWNTIME, QUALITY, RECIPE and LIFECYCLE.