EPOC® Suite
With the EPOC® Suite will take your site to a new level of efficiency.
The interaction between energy supply, energy distribution and energy use is optimally controlled and clearly displayed with the help of definable criteria. This means you have existing and future challenges well under control.
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EPOC® – Energy & Production Optimization Control
For energy-intensive industries and utilities, the challenges are changing dynamically. Scarce availability causes prices for energy sources to rise massively. The requirements of the “European Green Deal” impose additional costs (CO2 pricing) and restrictions on fossil fuels in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to compliance with statutory emission limits and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, there is also the parallel challenge of der Cost reduction by reducing the use of primary energy. More and more often, a shortage of skilled workers is also a task to be overcome when staffing the operating team.
EPOC stands for “Energy & Production Optimization Control” and provides a site-wide, overarching optimization solution. With the core modules from the areas of advanced process control, simulation, energy balancing, diagnostics and monitoring, built with deep process engineering know-how, you get a comprehensive tool to achieve and maintain a maximum efficiency level and adapt to new conditions. The modules can be deployed quickly and are integrated precisely into existing systems.
The EPOC® Suite consists of six standardized process and control engineering modules and the integrated web platform for monitoring, data availability, visualization and reporting. Demand-driven implementation combines fast realization with optimal impact. You benefit from the improvement of the overall efficiency by increasing the degree of automation and the constantly efficient operation of your plants in compliance with legal requirements.
Energy demand fluctuations are optimally balanced by integrating forecast tools into the control of energy supply and distribution. Less fuel consumption, reduction of the CO2 footprint and optimization of the balance between energy supply and energy use have a direct positive effect in terms of climate protection and costs.
Smoother driving and less work due to a significant reduction in the number of manual interventions required are significant from an organizational and economic point of view. Thanks to the simplification and stabilization of (production) processes, productivity and quality are increased. The life and travel time of your equipment will be extended thanks to uniform operation.
You can download the EPOC® implementation project as an investment or without CAPEX, via a user agreement. In this case, a usage fee is served via the optimization revenues.
In both cases, the implementation is compliant with the EU Taxonomy Regulation on the achievement of climate targets (EU 2020/852). The EPOC® Cloud enables a clear presentation of your investments and the explicit identification of your contributions to climate protection.
EPOC® Suite Module
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Here at the site, the EPOC® Steam Manager from VOIGT+WIPP Engineers supports the optimal operation of the steam network according to economic and ecological aspects. In addition to the successful reduction of steam losses, primary energy is saved through the forward-looking consideration of production planning. The savings identified via the potential study are realized, so everyone wins – the environment and the company!”
“VOIGT+WIPP Engineers are good communicators and experts on combustion control with deep process know-how integrated in their control product EPOC® Suite. As a very reliable and self responsible partner our project could proceed according to schedule and problems were detected and solved shortly after.”
Your benefit at a glance
Integration into the inventory, topology, hardware
The integration of EPOC® into your IT inventory involves several levels:
- EPOC® PLC (Customer OT): Level with connection to existing control technology
- EPOC® Server (Customer IT): Engineering station, data hub for other data sources
- EPOC® Cloud (External Services): Reporting, service, monitoring, remote maintenance connection
The hardware used for the controllers (PLC) is highly available and can optionally also be designed redundantly. The connection to the existing infrastructure is carried out with the highest IT and OT security criteria. Between the inventory and EPOC® there is a signal tracking system that enables skip-free switching. The signal switching is implemented together with the I&C programmer responsible for the site.
EPOC®-HMI
Our modern HMI provides you with a clear overview of all the important data.
In addition to energy balances, current predictions can also be made for model-based
process values as well as for the expected production process can be visualized.
EPOC®: AI forecast of heat consumption
EPOC®: Optimized interconnected operation by taking future production data into account
EPOC®: Real-time energy balancing
EPOC® project procedure
In the potential study, we analyze your system and derive process and control technology improvement potential that can be exploited by adapting the system and implementing the EPOC® Suite. The potential study includes a well-founded analysis of available operating data with suitable tools, an on-site inspection of the plant for the purpose of identifying the plant condition, and an intensive exchange with the operating team.
We combine the findings from on-site visits and discussions with the results from the data analysis and derive the optimization potential. We also develop variants for implementing the optimization as a basis for decision-making for the subsequent implementation phase.
In accordance with the jointly defined characteristics of the optimization, the engineering for the plant adaptation (process engineering), the elaboration of the control concept, the customizing of the control system and the implementation on site are carried out. We adapt your system in coordination with planned downtimes, add or replace sensors and actuators and create the conditions for EPOC® suite (hardware, software). Hardware (PLC, server, network connection) and software are supplied pre-configured and the customized EPOC® Suite is installed.
In the course of commissioning the EPOC® Suite as the new higher-level control system, after the cold commissioning with the signal changeover, the warm commissioning and the start of operation takes place. In the first phase of trial operation, tuning, fine-tuning and training of the operating crew take place. The benefits of the new, higher-level control system are felt very quickly by the operations team.
The commissioning is immediately followed by an operation that is intensively accompanied by us via secure remote maintenance in order to round off the optimization, taking into account the various operating states. The EPOC® service comprises several services in stages, such as periodic hardware checks, license maintenance, software updates and process and control engineering support for new operating states.
In many cases, this is also rounded off with complementary service packages for ongoing optimization and sound interpretation of available information. Based on evaluations, we support the adaptation of your parameterization, carry out changes and advise you if necessary. This means that over the entire life cycle of the EPOC® Suite ensures secure and high-performance operation.
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