Supply chain management solutions: Oracle teams with OMRON for greener supply chain
Patrick Burnson -- Executive Editor -- Logistics Management, 10/12/2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle and OMRON are collaborating to create a new solution designed to track energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in manufacturing and non-manufacturing facilities.
The announcement made today at “Oracle OpenWorld,” is one of several shippers will be hearing this week as a s companies continue to look for ways to drive sustainable initiatives, protect the environment and reduce their carbon footprint in the supply chain.
“Like many environmentally conscientious companies today, we want to do more than just monitor our energy consumption and emissions – we want to dramatically reduce them,” said . Masaki Teshigahara, senior general manager of OMRON’s Environmental Solutions Business H.Q. “With the combination of OMRON’s technology, and this new Green solution from Oracle, we expect to save more than 10 percent of our annualized energy bills.”
OMRON spokemen told LM that factories using OMRON's sensors and control devices are able to collect energy consumption information on the factory floor at the equipment and individual device level.
A long-time Oracle applications and technology customer, OMRON is contributing to the development of this solution and plans to implement it at an initial site with an eye toward deploying it throughout their global factories and offices.
“Oracle is committed to furthering our customers’ green and sustainability initiatives and at the same time helping them save money,” said Oracle senior vice president, applications development, Rick Jewell.
Shippers will use this new application to merge real-time energy consumption data collected by OMRON sensors and other types of energy meters with production data collected from shop floor control systems and equipment.
This offering is also designed to deliver an environmental data repository that can be leveraged as a certifiable information source for carbon accounting and greenhouse gas reporting, as well as energy management initiatives.
Companies who utilize this product can expect to gain access to multiple methods for data collection, said Oracle spokesmen. In addition to connecting to meters and energy sensors, shipper can also enter data manually or import data from Excel templates and other third party sources. In places where sensors are not available, the solution will provide a library of estimation, allocation and aggregation formulae to calculate energy consumption.
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