hello, everyone, my name is CC! Let CC teach you how to design an "energy management system" today!
In the last video, we mentioned that the scope of "energy management system" is very wide, which can be roughly divided into supply-oriented side and consumption-oriented side; the consumption-oriented side can be further divided into: home energy management system HEMS, community/park energy management system CEMS, Building Energy Management System BEMS, Factory Energy Management System FEMS and others.
What we are going to design today is strictly speaking a FEMS system; the purpose of this system is to improve the energy efficiency of the factory! Under the premise of not affecting production capacity and output, energy waste is minimized.
Next, we will analyze and design in detail from 4 angles: market positioning, product positioning, product life cycle planning, and product functions!
1. Market positioning
1) Market scope: It is a consumer-oriented and factory-oriented energy management system called FEMS. Based on this major premise, we will continue to lock in!
2) FEMS can be broadly divided into large energy-consuming enterprises and small, medium and micro-manufacturing enterprises. If you don’t even have products now, you don’t need to consider the large energy-consuming enterprises. They basically have all the systems they need, so the scope is narrowed down to small, medium and micro-manufacturing enterprises. manufacturing enterprises.
3) Because the energy management system can only improve the efficiency of energy use, but cannot produce substantial energy saving, the energy-saving benefits generated by the pure platform are very limited, especially for small and micro enterprises with small volume; this determines "Energy management system" is not a profit product by nature, it can only be used as a drainage product! Because of its limited value.
4) Based on the positioning of drainage products, it is determined that the input cost of this product should be low, and all customized requirements cannot be added, only general requirements can be added, and it must be SAAS, which ensures that the deployment cost is low enough, that is, The future marginal cost of the product should tend to be zero.
Therefore, our market positioning came out: it is a SAAS-based and almost free FEMS system for small, medium and micro manufacturing enterprises; and its commercial positioning is a drainage product, which is a strategy that supports fast enclosure but does not make money ;
But the company can’t do without making money, so if there are drainage products, there must be profitable products. Next, let’s take a look at product positioning.
2. Product positioning
The main purpose of product positioning is to cooperate with other products to hit the market ! Energy management system, it is not a single product. Therefore, we have to first take a look at which products it has joined forces with.
Generally speaking, those who do " industrial Internet " have their own industrial Internet platform, so what is an industrial Internet platform? This is really hard to explain. Different companies may have different product forms, but my understanding is that the industrial Internet platform is a mall with basic functions in terms of user experience.
Let me explain, the energy management system is just one scenario, and there are many other scenarios in the industrial field. For example, large systems include: safety management, MES (MES is production management), invoicing, digital twins, and industrial big systems. Data, etc.; small systems include: " NC program management " and " tool management " of CNC machine tools, predictive maintenance of equipment, etc.
The products behind these a large number of scenarios can be sold on the industrial Internet platform, and customers can subscribe on demand, which is the attribute of the mall;
So what does it mean to have basic functions ? The platform needs to gather the general functions of each product, such as organizational structure, role permissions, etc., so as to avoid users needing to enter and maintain the same information multiple times when using different products. Of course, there is another most important function, which is that no matter which product you use, you must log in from the platform, which realizes the collection and precipitation of traffic.
The energy management system is strongly dependent on the "basic functions of the industrial Internet platform" and "IIOT Internet of Things system";
The former is to provide general functions such as organizational structure, role authority, alarm, and log query, so as to ensure that the "energy management system" only encapsulates business-related functions and avoids making the product bulky;
The latter is to provide collected smart meter data. The monitoring and refined management of all energy data must be based on the premise of data.
So we can use this picture to clearly show the product positioning of "Energy Management System".
3. Product life cycle planning
After we have market positioning and product positioning, we need detailed research to clarify the current product form, as well as possible future iterations and upgrade routes.
This plan does not need to be too detailed. For the "energy management system", I will provide a simple idea, three stages: the
first stage: the transparency of energy data; before we only knew how much electricity and water the factory used in total every month , How much energy consumption has been paid, but the energy consumption of a certain equipment in a certain period of time is unknown, so the first stage is to let the energy consumption of the factory enter a clearly visible state from a chaotic state. This stage does not require how powerful the "energy management system" software is, but the basic hardware must be deployed, the instruments that need to be installed must be installed, and the network cables that must be pulled must be pulled!
The second stage: assisting the human brain in the refined management of energy; in the last stage, we can only see the data, but the analysis process is still in the human brain, so in the second stage we need to improve the playability, The data is just that data, but we have to play with it to help the human brain analyze and control energy consumption.
These two stages are relatively close and can be designed together to meet the current needs! The third stage is a vision, which represents an expected form of energy management in the future. This is a lighthouse that can guide the direction of our product iterations!
The third stage: smart energy system; it must be a complete set of software and hardware solutions, the software is the brain, the hardware is the limbs, and the brain can directly control the limbs. For example: We can use energy gradients. Some high-energy-consuming equipment will cause a lot of waste of heat energy during use. Can I deploy water pipes and use the wasted heat energy to heat the water, and then it will be "high temperature hot water", high temperature Hot water is also a form of energy, you can use it for industrial production, or provide it to the staff dormitory for showering! Of course, there will be problems at this time. You may not have staff dormitories and do not need high-temperature hot water, or you may not produce for one or two consecutive days during the maintenance period of high-energy-consuming equipment, and then there will be no high-temperature hot water for one or two days.
So at this time, each consumption unit needs to have multiple supply units to provide energy, and each supply unit can also supply multiple consumption units, and the energy forms supplied by the supply unit can also be varied, no longer a single energy source, this It is an intricate energy network, and each factory will no longer be a single consumer side, but also a supply side. It is to find a way to collect the energy it wastes and supply it to a small-volume consumer side. The AA battery of the toy car can also be used for the remote control.
The country is a large energy network, and each node of it can also be a small network that can supply and consume. Therefore, suppliers of energy management systems in the future may need to take into account the needs of both supply and consumption. More importantly, they must There are hardware solutions, that is, the limbs can support these complex needs.
Well, that’s all for today’s video, follow me, the next video CC will make a detailed design and introduction for the fourth piece of content “Product Function”, let’s see what this “Energy Management System” is!