To address the challenge of climate change, Delta is dedicated to developing sustainable smart manufacturing to help customers overcome energy and skilled labor shortages. While more and more manufacturers have their eyes on smart green manufacturing. This includes a well-known global metal casting manufacturer established in the 1980s. As its business scale expanded, it joined forces with Delta to build a large smart green factory for manufacturing, facilities, energy, and visualization management.

Delta was an integral part of the whole process. To provide one-stop service, Delta's sales engineer team visited the site several times in the initial stages to grasp the on-site situation and held exhaustive discussions with the customer to understand their requirements. The team made a comprehensive plan based on the customer’ s needs, and arranged the adoption of automation drives, controllers, sensors, and monitoring systems. By connecting the products to Delta’ s DIAView SCADA System and DIAEnergie Industrial Energy Management System, the plant became an IIoT environment to collect and analyze data. As a result, the admin could monitor each machine’ s operation and energy consumption in real-time and control the production process to increase productivity and profitability. Moreover, with real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance, the system saves all the system alarms in a database. It not only allows the admins to check and optimize the production conditions at any time, but it is capable of quickly notifying on-duty operators to help solve problems, reduce losses and benefit subsequent observation and tracking.

Energy saving and management are critical to a smart green factory. To optimize results, Delta focuses on energy-saving products and energy-visualized management. First, its inverters and power regenerators increase the energy efficiency of the high energy-consumption equipment, while PLCs and smart electronic meters on gas, electricity, water, and gas fields, such as lighting, air conditioning, water treatment, and electricity monitoring and control systems help schedule and collect energy consumption data. Where it is challenging to lay wire, Delta installs wireless transmission electronic meters and transmits the power use data to DIAEnergie Industrial Energy Management System remotely through a wireless industrial network switch. Compared with manual data collection which is time consuming, the admin can review all the energy consumption in real-time. With the data from each piece of equipment collected at different times, the system can analyze energy consumption and generate a demand prediction. The alarm provides an alert when it exceeds the mark, and operators on duty can refer to the predicted demand to reinstall. This not only avoids excess fees but saves energy for the customer.

Looking back to the pilot run, Delta leveraged its advantages in factory and energy visualization. Delta
shared its extensive experience to help the customer integrate an energy efficiency index and equipment
productivity to create a standard for future management.

Delta's professional team joined the whole process. From on-site diagnosis, equipment/platform adoption and setting, test runs, and maintenance to technical support, Delta provided the one-stop service to help the customer build its customized smart green factory