Lucozade Ribena Suntory, one of the leading soft drinks businesses in the UK and Ireland, has partnered with human machine interface leaders Wonderware UK & Ireland, to monitor and improve its energy performance.
Lucozade Ribena Suntory was formed in 2014, and is part of Suntory Beverage & Food Europe. The company’s UK site is a 53 acre facility based in Coleford, Gloucestershire, where it produces Lucozade Energy, Lucozade Sport, Lucozade Zero and Ribena. The factory produces over 1.2 billion bottles of drink each year.
The partnership is part of Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s goal to reduce its factory’s energy consumption by 5% year-on-year. In order to make reductions the company required a complete breakdown of site energy usage, so looked for an expert driven energy management solution. Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s mission is to reduce its impact on the environment and work in harmony with people and nature. The partnership with Wonderware will help the company understand its energy consumption in more detail, supporting the business in achieving this goal.
Gary Burford energy and sustainability manager at LRS said: “Energy management is a continuous improvement activity and we’ve already undertaken in excess of 26 energy saving projects in the last four years.
“To make further improvements, we need to understand where we are using energy across the site and improve the visibility and accessibility of that information to allow us to make changes.
“We believe the graphical interfaces and real-time data offered by the Wonderware solutions will engage our people, giving them an immediate awareness of their impact on energy usage and empowering them to make the small changes that can, over time, deliver big results.”
The company has now implemented Wonderware System Platform, which can be attached to Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s individually metered systems to convert the raw energy data into actionable information, allowing LRS to better understand its energy consumption patterns and costs and to identify potential inefficiencies.
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