September 5, 2018 – Stanwood Wash. – Airixa, an energy management and industrial refrigeration control systems platform produced by Process Solutions, recently launched a full suite of energy management features aimed at helping production facilities reduce their energy and power demand costs.

With industrial companies being billed for their energy usage and power demand, Process Solutions designed Airixa to combat the costly demand peaks that substantially increase customers’ electric bills. To reduce unnecessary demand peaks, Airixa deploys an intelligent feature set, such as the ability to set an adaptive demand limit for each month, user-selected load reduction priorities, dynamic priorities based on production metrics and constraints, and demand response, which monitors your facility’s power loads and automatically controls those loads to better match the demand with the supply.

Airixa’s energy management suite comes standard with demand response features to help companies generate revenue in coordination with the utility and aggregator-provided demand response programs that are now available in many areas. These features can introduce new revenue streams with minimal or no impact on production.

Further Airixa energy management features include the ability to monitor how much power is being consumed within a certain time period, what equipment is consuming the most power, how individual loads contribute to peak demand, where power is being reduced to prevent demand peaks, and how much surplus power is available to run additional equipment without going over the demand limit in each debit period. With this information, operators can run their facilities at optimal efficiency without impacting production performance.

On occasions when power outages occur, Airixa’s start-up sequences allow facilities to ramp up slowly, instead of having all electrical loads start-up at the same time and create a large power load. The priority and order of what equipment is started can be manually set within the system to help you get your facility up and running as quickly as possible.

In order to create an in-depth level of control and monitoring capabilities, Airixa allows for load segmenting. With load segmenting, the facility’s power loads are segmented by individual locations or equipment. Each location or piece of equipment is then given its own power settings, which allows for power loads to be controlled individually from the rest of the system.

Upon accessing the Airixa energy management dashboard via HMI, web interface, or mobile device, users will be greeted by a trend displaying the facility’s power demand. The trend can be set to show consumption data for any period the viewer would like to see. Blue bars on the trend illustrate how much power was consumed during each debit period, thus contributing to overall demand, while green bars display reduced power. A black line running horizontally across the trend illustrates the demand limit, where consumption is permitted before creating a demand peak.

By clicking on a specific demand period on the trend, users can view specific demand period values, such as how much energy each load is consuming, how much power is being reduced, and the current reduced statuses.

All Airixa systems utilize Siemens hardware and software components, including S7-1500 PLCs and WinCC OA platforms. The use of non-proprietary components makes the acquisition of parts, as well as support and updates easier and more widely available.

Don’t wait to start reducing your energy and demand costs. Visit www.processsolutions.com/airixa to request a free quote for adding an Airixa energy management system to your facility. With many utility companies offering rebates to those who reduce their energy consumption or install demand response systems, there has never been a better time to see what Airixa has to offer.

With over 30 years in business, Process Solutions has emerged as a leader in the control system design and integration industry. Quality and experience are built in to every control system that ships from Process Solutions’ 30,000 sq. ft. facility in Stanwood, Washington. For more information, please visit https://processsolutions.com.