Tutorial: Production Information - Step 5 of 9
Overview
The next step in the Quick PEP process is Production Information (Step 5). In this step you supply Quick PEP with some
sort of measure of the activity at your plant. Quick PEP will use this information to calculate energy costs and savings
on a per unit of production basis. This step is optional. You are not required to provide any production information.
It is important to understand that this screen can measure more than just simple plant production. It can actually use any
metric or measure that you prefer. The point of the screen is to gather some numerical measure of activity at your plant so
that Quick PEP can provide you with a per unit measure of energy costs and energy savings.
The Production Information screen has the following fields:
- Product Name: the name of the product or measure of activity
- Average Quantity: a number that represents the average quantity produced or measured during the selected period.
- Units: the unit of measure for the product. This could be Tons or Cases or Dollars, etc. See below for a full explanation.
- Period: the period of time that you are entering average information for.
The following examples should better explain how to use the Production Information screen.
Example 1
A steel plant measures its production by weight. Each quarter a report is produced at the plant that summarizes the total production
of the plant in terms of tons of steel. The latest copy of the report shows that the plant produced 24.72 tons of steel in the most recent quarter. In this example the user would fill out the fields as follows:
| Product Name |
Steel |
| Average Quantity |
24.72 |
| Units |
Tons |
| Period |
Quarterly |
For this example the Quick PEP report would show the average annual amount of energy purchased and the potential annual energy savings per ton.
Example 2
A chemical plant has 4 separate products. It is difficult to come up with one common product and one common measure for this plant. One product is measured by weight and another product is measured in terms of cases.
The user could decide to measure the activity at the plant by using gross sales figures. The annual report shows that this plant had gross sales of $2,350,000 in the last year. Therefore the user could
fill out the fields as follows:
| Product Name |
Chemicals |
| Average Quantity |
2350000 |
| Units |
Gross Sales Dollars |
| Period |
Annually |
For this example the Quick PEP report would show the average annual amount of energy purchased and the potential annual energy savings per gross sales dollar.
Example 3
A petroleum refinery has too many different products to come up with one total measure of production. The user has some industry data about the average amount of energy
purchased per employee for the petroleum industry. He would like to see how his plant compares. He knows that the average number of employees at the plant over the last year
is 1100 per month. The user could fill out the fields as follows:
| Product Name |
Petroleum |
| Average Quantity |
1100 |
| Units |
Employees |
| Period |
Monthly |
For this example the Quick PEP report would show the average annual amount of energy purchased and the potential annual energy savings per employee.
The Production Information screen is very flexible and can be used to show energy savings and consumption for many different types of metrics.
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