xChange Point

Reduce energy use & carbon emissions for greater profitability! In today’s manufacturing environment, properly managing energy consumption and carbon emissions is not an option – it is essential. However, effective energy management requires dedication, time, expertise and critical information not provided in utility bills. How can you achieve it?

xChange Point® is the answer. This real-time energy management solution takes enterprise-wide energy usage data, transforms it into targeted, actionable information and puts it into the hands of managers and employees. It provides fast identification of low and no-cost energy saving measures and presents the information in an easily understandable way so resources can be allocated for maximum benefit at both the corporate and production unit levels.

xChange Point is the engine behind the EPS Way – a 3-step approach to achieving persistent, enterprise-wide savings and sustainability goals. With xChange Point guiding the way, you can continuously monitor, control and optimize your company’s energy use and carbon emissions:

• Control & monitor energy use for greater efficiency & increased competitiveness
• Identify & prioritize the best ROI energy opportunities
• Calculate emissions data for carbon accounting requirements
• Determine and implement the best-suited alternative energy options
• Reduce energy costs & carbon emissions by up to 25%
• Your Guide to Persistent, Enterprise-wide Savings

Imagine knowing in an instant how your boilers at every facility are performing… or seeing and correcting inefficiencies in your refrigeration systems in a matter of minutes, all from a single web-based interface.

What if you had a team of energy analysts watching your plants around the clock, providing an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of your energy costs and emissions… and a concrete plan designed to achieve the highest levels of efficiency?

That is xChange Point – your energy management solution for persistent, corporate-wide resource savings.

For the Enterprise, For the Product Division

At the enterprise level, the objective is to achieve long-term sustainability goals while increasing operating margin. xChange Point lets you track energy usage of common sub-systems using a consistent “per unit of production” measurement at plants across the entire enterprise. It establishes baseline efficiency targets and identifies opportunities for optimization. With this standards-based approach, xChange Point helps you to prioritize projects to help achieve the highest energy savings and shortest payback periods.

At the product division level, xChange Point enables you to apply that same standard measurement across sub-systems unique to each facility. So that you can easily identify the processes and sub-systems with the most financially compelling “no cost/low cost” opportunities for energy savings. This helps you make better decisions on how to manage your resources to achieve energy savings while also optimizing production. By providing continuous monitoring and corporate-wide visibility under a common unit of measure, xChange Point gives you an effective way to apply lessons learned at your most efficient plants to others with similar processes and/or equipment. Not to mention a way to calculate GHG Protocol Scopes 1 and 2 level reports for carbon accounting purposes.

Transforming Data to Targeted Information

xChange Point is far beyond software. Each subscription includes a team of energy experts who continually monitor your facilities and report their conclusions and recommendations. There are no people to manage or spreadsheets to decipher. You are not left wading through mountains of data. Instead, you get a concise report each month highlighting the results and action items of most importance to you… a real-time Energy Management Solution for a competitive advantage.

• Common energy usage measurement across the enterprise
• Energy and carbon baselines at the product, equipment, or facility level
• Recommended solutions to correct equipment inefficiencies
• Identification of the strongest candidates for immediate savings and energy reductions
• Identification of equipment that should be repaired or replaced
• A detailed plan to eliminate inefficiencies and implement best practices, enterprise-wide
• Calculation of emissions for carbon accounting requirements