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	Customer Success Story: Tefal SAS ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Tefal SAS

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Energy Management System Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Tefal SAS, a subsidiary of Groupe SEB, is a global leader in small household equipment. The company manufactures around 44 million products annually in a high energy-consuming process. The energy costs for manufacturing operations could reach as high as eight million euros, split between four million for electricity costs and four million for gas. Given these numbers, Tefal decided to launch an Energy Efficiency project to reduce manufacturing-related energy costs. The company began the project by making an energy diagnosis, in order to learn real-time consumption levels towards the goal of making improvements leading to energy-related savings. Tefal sought an energy management system that could be implemented without revising their existing architecture. They aimed to connect the new system to equipment already in place, using standard communication protocols such as OPC, for use of real-time data in addition to archiving and recovery. Read More
About Customer	Tefal SAS, headquartered in Rumilly, France is a subsidiary of Groupe SEB, a “world leader in Small Household Equipment”. Groupe SEB, which estimates it sells six products across the globe per second (adding up to 200 million products sold every year throughout 150 countries), has approximately 25,000 employees spread through 29 manufacturing sites worldwide. Tefal’s Rumilly location employs approximately 1,850 people within 160,000 square feet of building space, with an additional 160 employees in Tournus, France within 21,000 square feet. Every year, Tefal manufactures around 44 million products in what was a high energy-consuming process. The manufacturing process entails many phases, including cooking, drying and cooling. Read More
Solution	Working directly with ICONICS France, Tefal SAS selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite; Hyper Historian™ high-speed, robust data historian; AnalytiX® suite of analytical tools (including the Energy AnalytiX advanced energy management software); WebHMI™ Web-based, real-time automation software; ReportWorX™ enterprise reporting, charting and analysis software; and BridgeWorX™ real-time workflow for data bridging. The planned solution needed to interface with multiple pieces of equipment including Allen-Bradley, Eaton Moeller and Schneider Electric PLCs (via OPC), a Socomec power device (also via OPC) and a Producim MES system (via SQL query in an Oracle database). It also needed to be easy to use, to provide access via Web clients without installation, and to manage different needs including monitoring, reporting, commanding, GEO SCADA/mapping, alarm management and trend management. Tefal’s selected solution would also need to integrate with existing Microsoft components (SQL Server, Excel, etc.), manage consumption of electricity, gas and water (including a way to easily add meters), and provide energy cost management capabilities. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Energy Management System

Predictive Maintenance

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Tefal SAS, a subsidiary of Groupe SEB, is a global leader in small household equipment. The company manufactures around 44 million products annually in a high energy-consuming process. The energy costs for manufacturing operations could reach as high as eight million euros, split between four million for electricity costs and four million for gas. Given these numbers, Tefal decided to launch an Energy Efficiency project to reduce manufacturing-related energy costs. The company began the project by making an energy diagnosis, in order to learn real-time consumption levels towards the goal of making improvements leading to energy-related savings. Tefal sought an energy management system that could be implemented without revising their existing architecture. They aimed to connect the new system to equipment already in place, using standard communication protocols such as OPC, for use of real-time data in addition to archiving and recovery.

About Customer

Tefal SAS, headquartered in Rumilly, France is a subsidiary of Groupe SEB, a “world leader in Small Household Equipment”. Groupe SEB, which estimates it sells six products across the globe per second (adding up to 200 million products sold every year throughout 150 countries), has approximately 25,000 employees spread through 29 manufacturing sites worldwide. Tefal’s Rumilly location employs approximately 1,850 people within 160,000 square feet of building space, with an additional 160 employees in Tournus, France within 21,000 square feet. Every year, Tefal manufactures around 44 million products in what was a high energy-consuming process. The manufacturing process entails many phases, including cooking, drying and cooling.

Solution

Working directly with ICONICS France, Tefal SAS selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite; Hyper Historian™ high-speed, robust data historian; AnalytiX® suite of analytical tools (including the Energy AnalytiX advanced energy management software); WebHMI™ Web-based, real-time automation software; ReportWorX™ enterprise reporting, charting and analysis software; and BridgeWorX™ real-time workflow for data bridging. The planned solution needed to interface with multiple pieces of equipment including Allen-Bradley, Eaton Moeller and Schneider Electric PLCs (via OPC), a Socomec power device (also via OPC) and a Producim MES system (via SQL query in an Oracle database). It also needed to be easy to use, to provide access via Web clients without installation, and to manage different needs including monitoring, reporting, commanding, GEO SCADA/mapping, alarm management and trend management. Tefal’s selected solution would also need to integrate with existing Microsoft components (SQL Server, Excel, etc.), manage consumption of electricity, gas and water (including a way to easily add meters), and provide energy cost management capabilities.

Impact #1	Tefal was now able to automatically accumulate energy consumption by equipment, area and site.
Impact #2	The company could now customize dashboards to provide the best information to each different user type (facility/ energy/top management/operator).
Impact #3	They could also now connect energy consumption to production and calculate costs (such as energy per piece) and control manufacturing efficiency.

Impact #1

Tefal was now able to automatically accumulate energy consumption by equipment, area and site.

Impact #2

The company could now customize dashboards to provide the best information to each different user type (facility/ energy/top management/operator).

Impact #3

They could also now connect energy consumption to production and calculate costs (such as energy per piece) and control manufacturing efficiency.

Benefit #1	Avoided equipment energy overconsumption
Benefit #2	Avoided overuse penalties by the French government

Benefit #1

Avoided equipment energy overconsumption

Benefit #2

Avoided overuse penalties by the French government

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Customer Success Story: Tefal SAS

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