How save energy in EMS Company Shop floor???

What does your EMS stand for? (Energy Management System, Express Mail Service, Electric Motor Suppliers, Emergency Medical Suppliers)

Turn the lights off.

Turn the computers off, if you are not using them.

Based on some very sketchy information, Energy Management Systems are set up to save energy by utilizing two modes. Occupied and Unoccupied, then you look at the occupied mode and check for energy use status if there are different modes of occupied. After that you try to see if its feasible to do some sort of peak shaving. Also you can determine if new lighting can be applied.Check to see if there is any thing available from the governments in the shape of tax incentives or carbon offsets.

Thats about it.

Still no idea what YOUR EMS is, but here are some general thoughts...

Set up so you can use passive solar for light i.e.: windows, SolaTubes

Plant deciduous plants around the perimeter of the building if appropriate. Shade in the summer, let's light through in the winter.

Insulate. Thermal insulation around shop and other occupied areas. This will help year round.

Do you NEED to use air conditioning? Ceiling fans, 'pull through' or large space centalation fans. Even well insulatted buildings need 'fresh air'. Your industry standards tell you what kind of 'fresh air' (how much, what the particulate level and CO2 levels should be and be safe). In some areas evaporative air coolers (swamp buckets) are effective and cost effective.

Check the phasing of your electrical supply. Have a qualified electrician check the phasing and adjust the phasing of your inductive loads as seen by your electrical service company to be percieved as a 1:1 load. (When my Dad worked for a LARGE manufacturer, this saved them thousands per month for just a couple of thousand in investment.)

Keep air filters clean, and check for degradation in light ballasts. Ballasts go bad over time. Non-clean air filters need more power to move the same air. Change weak fluorescent (basically non-incandescent) lights regularly and replace before they go out. You will get all the light you are paying for.

If you generate particulate matter at work stations (wood, metal, plastic, etc) put in GOOD air cleaning and dust collection systems. Don't mix metals or metal with non-metal matter. For recycling/sale of 'trash' possibilities, don't mix wood or plastics either.

If you have 'shop air', trace down and fix all air leaks. Keep your air tools properly maintained.

Keep any sharp tools sharp. It cuts down on the power needed to cut materials and makes better cuts faster.

Life cycle your computers and monitors. Most desktops need to be replaced every 3 to 5 years. If you have not upgraded to flat screen LED/LCD monitors do. They use less power, and employees feel appreciated, it also uses less desk space (smaller cubes?) Consider applications that run more on the servers and less on the desktops so you can do with 'smaller' desktops.

If the office situation is appropriate, give folks small laptop computers (still less power), use 'host based' applications (no data on the desk top, so if computer gets lost, only the computer is lost, not data, cache no passwords - security issues). Also some folks might not need a 'permanent' desk, but could use a 'desk hotel' with their laptops. This is true for folks that spend 'all' their time on the shop floor, or sales folks that are supposed to be 'out' most of the time, even managers (but most of them 'need' the status offices, or so they say).

Use electric rather than propane fork lifts? Propane or natural gas for delivery trucks rather than gasoline.

If you 'generate' a lot of heat due to needing to 'cook' materials (calcine lime to make portland cement, autoclave for sterilization or lamination, , etc) consider heat recovery and co-generate electricity to reduce your total energy usage. Some places make more electricity than they use as a by-product of their business processes.

Depending on your perceived ROI or ROCE, add solar panels for 'grid tie' power generation, and possibly 'wind turbines'. Not that these make great economic sense, but the 'green product' and 'green production' sales effect is significant, and in some areas the local power company or governmental bodies might throw some money your way (tax reduction? rebates? other incentives? ... it is a very local thing in that area.)

Once or as you do these things, consider the property tax implications. Property (ad-valorem) taxes are one of the few negotiable taxes there are. Get some GOOD negotiators to go talk to the ad-valorem tax district evaluators, they might sell them on lower taxes anyway. ... It works for lots of companies, green or not.

If you drive a lot, use automated 'routing' software with a bias for right turns only. UPS does this and saves LOTS of money. Do not leave engines idling for more than x seconds (Nashville TN says 30 seconds for their police if I remember right). That may be excessive, but it adds up. ... Insist of hybrid vehicles as they come up for 'updating'. The $$ savings may not be so great considering ROCE (Retun On Capital Employed) but it will on milage. ... Try to get any hybrid to have a 'plug in' option (another thing that has good intentions, but may not be great on any one vehicle. Overall, IMHO it is the current best of both worlds.)

Put in company policy to drive 5 MPH BELOW the speed limit, and to limit MAXIMUM to 55MPH (about 80KPH). Put in CAN based plug in electronics to log and monitor compliance. Something like CarChip Fleet Pro, or ScanGaugeII (available at amazon.com). Read some 'hyper miling' web sites and suggest your drivers do.

Drive with lights on, day or night. ... It lets other dirvers see you better even in the day time and it has been shown to reduce accidents. I have no REAL clue why, I guess it really does make you more visable to others.

Air conditioning is usually the largest energy consumer in an office building. Unfortunately, the use of the lowest bidder during construction followed by questionable qualifications of people in the trade working with cheap equipment end up creating a huge waste of energy. Here are the main problems I have experienced:

Make sure that the heating system doesn't work at the same time that the cooling system. I have seen that in a few buildings after years if remodeling and adding offices by sub-dividing. Cold and hot thermostats can end up being used in different sections and fight each others.

Also, bad cooling balance between sections of the building often forces people to bring in their own heaters to keep their office at a reasonable temperature.

The whole vision of central AC with a few zones doesn't work well once walls are added in the building. If you expect floor plan modifications over the years (you should), add local control to each vent. Even a manually actuated one will be useful. This way, if an office eventually gets closed up under the vent, the occupant will be able to adjust the cooling or heating as needed.