The Emerging Electrical Markets for Copper
Industrial Process Automation
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Industrial Process AutomationIndustrial process automation is about improving the efficiency of factory operations through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). In the report “Smart 2020” the Climate Group estimated the potential CO2 abatement at 0.29 GtCO2e. This is nearly half as much saving again as that achieved directly with efficient motor driven systems with VSDs (see Figure 121). Figure 121: The Role of Industrial Process Automation in Abating Greenhouse Gas Emissions39 
The role of ICT in the first instance is monitoring of energy consumption in the factory, primarily looking at motor driven systems. This will involve digital meters and components for real time information, allowing database collection and energy audits. The energy consumption data can be utilised with various business efficiency software and simulation models to determine where greater efficiencies can be introduced into the manufacturing process. Information networks that allow inter-machine and system communication can then be used to improve efficiency across an entire factory. The automation process is largely software based, but there is also hardware with potential for a considerable copper content. This includes data interconnection (wired or wireless) between VSDs and a central control system, and between VSDs linked to each motor system and the rest of the industrial plant. Communication outside the immediate factory environment also forms part of the energy and greenhouse gas savings offered by industrial process automation. For example, data from the factory can be exchanged with suppliers and customers to make logistics smarter, and with the electric utility as part of its smart grid management process. With the growing focus on achieving efficiencies in industry and advances in the ability to do this with improved industrial software, industrial process automation is a fast-expanding market; its growth rate is one or two percentage points above that in GDP. Fast growth in a market consuming copper suggests a potential for new markets for copper. However, we do not see new products being consumed here; this is likely to be mainly a growth are for data, signal and control cabling and copper / alloy strip in electronics. As industrial process automation is already an established market, and no new products can be identified, it does not fulfil the criteria required of a new market for this Report. But, it is an area where, because of its growth, such new opportunities may become apparent. Directory: wordpress -> wp-content -> uploads -> 2017 uploads -> Professor rona s beattie and dr david bamaung glasgow caledonian university email for corresponding author uploads -> Best Offensive Players: qb #19 keenan reynolds, N, ’16. Lg #57 E. K. Binns, N, ’16 uploads -> Smart Supervision Research Partner Orientation Course fy13 and fy14 Grantees September 29- october 1, 2015/San Antonio, tx uploads -> Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (across) 2017 -> 6 Thai Market Analysis 2017 -> Birchwood intermediate school 2017 -> Operation corporate 2017 -> This document is written for the amateur radio operator that will be using the PiGate as an emergency communications device in a disaster situation Download 10.26 Mb. Share with your friends:
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