The Operational Case for Energy Saving Technology

Anyone who works in frontline operations in a business is concerned with keeping the operation productive - whilst many of our clients who are involved in frontline operations are keen to promote Corporate Social Responsibility and utilise energy saving technology on the premises, we understand that changes to the operational arena have to be reliable and implemented with minimum disruption.

Simple and effective - just the recipe for minimum operational disruption.

Anyone who works in frontline operations in a business is concerned with keeping the operation productive - whilst many of our clients who are involved in frontline operations are keen to promote Corporate Social Responsibility and utilise energy saving technology on the premises, we understand that changes to the operational arena have to be reliable and implemented with minimum disruption.

Somar personnel appreciate that any solutions implemented in the cause of energy efficiency must utilise proven and reliable technology that is fit for purpose and is guaranteed to deliver significant money saving without compromising on either production or environmental conditions.

Intelligent Lighting

Somar Eluma - Intelligent Energy Efficient Lighting not only saves money through energy saving and reduced maintenance requirements, reduces the carbon footprint with it's enhanced performance but also greatly improves the conditions in the area that is being lit, and allows you to meet all of the latest Health and Safety requirements. 

  • The high levels of optical performance delivered by  Somar Lighting systems allows you to reduce bulb ratings by approximately 50% (thus getting an instant 50% saving on energy consumption) In spite of this rating reduction, light levels are usually increased, light quality is improved (and does not noticeably fade as many conventional lights do). The anti glare linear light source improves light consistency - overcoming visibility problems often caused by the scalloping and shadowing created with many standard lighting systems.
  • The instant strike system in the lighting allows lights to be turned on and off at will, and avoids the problems caused when power glitches switch lights off for a few seconds and then they take time to restrike with conventional systems - another productivity and health and safety improvement.
  • The advanced controls on the lights not only intelligently switch off lights not being used, thus saving energy and lamp life, but they also harvest daylight. This system enables you to maintain required operational light levels whilst dimming the lights in accordance with daylight contribution.
  • High bay lighting is expensive and awkward to maintain - Somar Eluma technology not only comes with a 5 year no quibble guarantee, but also increases the interval between lamp changes to over 20,000 hours.  

Intelligent Motor Control

Somar Integra - Intelligent Motor Control again not only delivers high levels of energy savings and subsequent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, but also significantly reduces maintenance requirements in most cases whilst often allowing our customers to return a higher yield from the same power supply. -

Integra is a complete control system for your fixed speed applications,

  • This solution will use advanced soft start technology to automatically control the starting of the application thus avoiding costly peak demand threat, and allowing even the biggest applications to be turned on and off at will. 

Once your application is running the system will continue to work on your behalf and  control the amount of energy being consumed by the application as it is working - the solution acts like a "cruise control" - every 1/100th second it automatically adjusts the amount of energy consumed by the motor according to the job of work it is doing thus reducing excess heat noise and vibration (caused by excess energy in the windings of the motor) and significantly reducing maintenance and unscheduled breakdowns. When considering the true cost of maintenance or breakdowns - parts / labour / business downtime / loss of business (not to mention the personal pressure placed on you and your team), there is quite clearly a major business opportunity in this area. Somar motor control can also automatically switch off applications that are not being used, and switch them on as required. Somar personnel have worked with some clients who have been able to switch off large motors that were once running 24 hours per day and reduce the run time of the application to 2 or 3 hours per day - a return on investment on the project of just 2 weeks!

Controlled stopping is another feature which could reduce your maintenance requirements

If you are running unregulated motors you have an opportunity - The application of energy efficient motor control is the responsible thing to do.

Little Or No Disruption

We appreciate that you have a business to run - technical projects can be a distraction. Somar personnel are trained as specialists on specific applications The Somar Team will work with you to apply a solution to your specification and under typical conditions installation and commissioning can be carried out with little or no disruption to your normal operation. All of the technologies are fully intelligent, and require no adjustment once they have been fitted. They are all built to international quality standards, and come with a comprehensive warranty and performance guarantees can be given. 

Something for everyone...

You can literally please everyone with the application of Somar technology.

Your operational team are sure to enjoy the improved conditions and reduced maintenance / breakdown pressures that we have looked at in this section.  

Those interested in financial affairs will be delighted as you will be offering them a business opportunity for low risk, high reward investment that offers a guaranteed return on investment (where else will they get that in today's economic climate?). These projects will make a direct contribution to cost control and thus profit development. You will be able to offer them immediate action to offset the major rises in energy costs that you have experienced in the past year or so. This solution may even protect the jobs of your colleagues as the financial management are forced to implement cost cutting strategies.

Those concerned with green affairs will be delighted as the application of these solutions will go a significant way to portraying your company as one that meets it's Corporate Social Responsibility by reducing greenhouse gasses.

Too good to be true? Somar technology is now being used by many of your industry contempories - there is a good chance as we speak that your competitors are using it, or about to use it to gain cost advantages over you. These solutions are easy to understand, well proven and can be easily applied in a short period. It is not a question of "do we want to spend the money?" You are spending it in any case: you are just paying too much for your energy, and paying too much for maintenance and all that it entails. Somar personnel can work with you to produce a comprehensive business case that will give you and your colleagues the opportunity to make an informed decision as to whether they wish to proceed with these improvements.

Somar solutions - the intelligent choice for your operation: if you would like to have a no-obligation consultation to find more about how you can make a major difference with minimum disruption whilst keeping everyone happy - please contact us now. You know that standing still is not an option in this economic climate so what have you got to lose?