To make its net-zero ambitions a reality by 2050, Michelin, a world-leading mobility company and renowned tire manufacturer, knew that it had to achieve more energy-efficient operations. As a long-time user of AVEVA™ PI System™, the company already had its solution. Now, operators in the tire plants use AVEVA PI System to monitor energy use and optimize processes to reduce energy consumption. From there, the team at one plant can easily share optimal process parameters with other Michelin plants, unlocking an even greater scale of energy savings across the enterprise.
“Our people, both from the shop floor and from the central teams, can understand deeply, can analyze, benchmark, compare, and then they can find the best practice and share it all around the world. And by sharing those best practices, we save from 3% to 16% in energy consumption.”
Nicolas Auger,
Product Manager, Michelin
Challenges
- Make energy consumption monitoring accessible to everyone in the company
- Standardize energy data from multiple sources
- Needed to process a huge quantity of data
Solution
- Deployed AVEVA™ PI System™ to read, standardize, and contextualize energy consumption data from many parts of the production process, making it available to all in a standard way.
Results
- Collected and standardized data from 15 production sites around the world
- Saved up to 10% in the initial few months by optimizing process parameters
- Sharing best practices across factories globally reduced energy consumption by as much as 16%
