Even with appropriately sized facilities, effectively managing energy consumption and avoiding power peaks can greatly influence test center operating costs. Comprehensive monitoring of energy usage, coupled with proactive test scheduling, plays a crucial role in optimizing overall energy demand, lowering associated CO₂ output, and minimizing total cost of ownership.
By efficiently utilizing the facility’s power distribution network, organizations can ensure reliable power availability for new applications or future expansions. This strategic approach helps maintain operational efficiency and supports long-term, future-ready growth, ultimately enhancing cost-effectiveness and responsible resource management.
Power Limitations
Facilities are limited in power. Upgrades to test cells are sometimes compromised.
Regeneration Peaks
Some facilities are not allowed to regenerate power to the grid, have limited capabilities, or do not receive compensation.
Planning for New Infrastructure
Planning for a new test cell or building requires an understanding of the power consumption.
High Energy Costs
Controlling where energy is spent is crucial for improving efficiency as energy costs continue to rise.
AVL EMOS™ provides real-time monitoring of energy consumption, mapping it directly to corresponding test cycles and linking operating costs to energy use. This advanced tool helps users optimize power costs by analyzing consumed power against the contracted maximum power, supporting effective energy management.
The AVL EMOS™ Management feature increases test center efficiency by optimizing test sequences across multiple testbeds. It supports offline pre-planning, online load control, and prioritization of test cells. Additionally, AVL EMOS™ can operate in bypass mode when load management needs to be temporarily disabled, ensuring flexible control of energy usage and stable operation at all times.
AVL EMOS™ can provide support in three main areas:
Energy Consumption
Reduction
By monitoring energy consumption in connection with various operating parameters of the testbed, it is possible to detect inefficiencies and identify their causes.
Peak Power
Reduction
Efficient synchronization of tests can prevent power peaks. In this way, the power infrastructure and power tariff can be optimized.
Operation Within
Facility Limits
AVL EMOS™ Management ensures that plant limits are not exceeded during operation, avoiding unexpected shutdowns that cause downtime and operational inefficiencies.
Monitoring
AVL EMOS™ enables the allocation of expenses to the correct cost center, defining KPIs for test results, calculating energy and operating costs, and providing important information for new investments in the tech center.
Load Management
AVL EMOS™ Management dynamically controls and adapts the number of tests running in parallel to avoid exceeding the overall power consumption limit.
Load Simulation
Based on the planned tests, a forecast of the expected power load is calculated, and the user can assess the viability of the proposed test schedule.
Flexibility for a Complete Overview
AVL EMOS™ visualizations, reports and interfaces are flexible and highly configurable. The software can act as a data source for existing BI tools, providing an integrated energy view into your existing data infrastructure.
AVL EMOS™ empowers test fields with a scalable and modular energy management solution. It enables informed decision-making, facilitates regulatory compliance, streamlines buildings permitting processes and reduces the power requirements from utility providers.”
– Miguel Ochoa, AVL EMOS Head of Development, AVL , AVL Iberica S.A.
AVL Turnkey Facility Solutions offers our customers holistic solutions. By holistic we mean the complete solution including the measurement and test technology itself. We specialize in integrating test systems into existing or new test facilities.
Customer requirements show the need for additional test capacity for ambitious product development plans. AVL Tech Center Modules significantly shorten this process. The flexible, location-independent and easily relocatable modular test system is particularly helpful.
Our customer base is global, with test facilities located worldwide. They frequently request our support in modernizing or repurposing their existing facilities. Our services cover the full spectrum of tech center development, from planning to operation, considering the needs greenfield and brownfield sites.
AVL ATENE™ is an innovative solution designed to manage and optimize energy usage in companies.
Due to new technologies, processes and regulations, tech centers became more complex. These new developments impact both energy consumption and testing costs. At AVL, we see it as our responsibility to act in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner while fulfilling the highest technical, economic, and quality requirements.
The primary goal for our AVL Customer Support Teams is, to be a helpful and reliable partner for all kind of questions and issues you might have, when using AVL’s technology.
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