Introduction
Founded in 1926 in Norway, Jotun has evolved into a global leader in paint manufacturing, operating in over 100 countries. With a steadfast commitment to quality, sustainability, and innovation, Jotun protects and enhances assets worldwide, from residential homes to iconic landmarks. Guided by its mission, “Jotun Protects Property,” and its core values of loyalty, care, respect, and boldness, the company continues to thrive in its pursuit of excellence.
To advance its sustainability agenda, Jotun faced critical challenges in managing energy and water consumption across cost centers, improving resource uptime, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and ensuring secure integration of energy meters, water/flow meters, and production management systems with IT and OT networks. Partnering with Greenovative Energy, Jotun implemented the GreenErgy platform to redefine energy and water management, optimize resource utilization, and achieve specific energy consumption (SEC) targets while maintaining robust security practices.
Challenges
Jotun’s management challenges included:
- Cost Center Tracking: Difficulty in attributing energy and water consumption and savings to specific cost centers hindered financial analysis.
- Energy Benchmarking Across Plants and Products: The absence of comparative performance metrics across manufacturing sites and product lines limited visibility into optimization opportunities.
- Cost-Saving Opportunities: Absence of actionable insights into resource usage patterns limited the ability to reduce operational costs.
- Project Impact Tracking: Inability to track and measure savings achieved through sustainability projects.
- IT-OT Network Integration: Ensuring seamless and secure communication between IT and OT systems, energy meters, water/flow meters, and production management systems to maintain operational integrity.
- Cybersecurity Compliance: Adhering to industry security standards for data collection, transmission, and analysis to safeguard operational data.
These challenges required an integrated and advanced technological solution for holistic resource management and cost optimization.
Solution:
The GreenErgy Platform GreenErgy, Greenovative’s state-of-the-art Energy Management System (EMS), provided Jotun with a centralized platform to address these challenges effectively. The solution’s key components included:
- Centralized Cockpit for Regional Manufacturing Sites:
- Established a unified dashboard to provide comprehensive visibility into energy and water consumption across all regional manufacturing sites.
- Enabled cross-plant performance comparison to identify best practices and areas for improvement.
- Simplified decision-making through real-time consolidated data insights.
- Resilient ITOT Integration:
- Established a secure, interoperable link between IT and OT systems, sensors, and production data for centralized operations.
- Ensured seamless data flow between legacy infrastructure and modern analytics platforms through API-driven integration.
- Embedded advanced cybersecurity protocols, safeguarding critical data against potential threats.
- Actionable Cost Center Analysis:
- Enabled detailed tracking and attribution of resource consumption and savings across individual cost centers.
- Offered clarity into operational costs linked to sustainability projects, enhancing financial transparency and accountability.
- Advanced SEC Insights and Benchmarking:
- Automated Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) calculations, offering actionable metrics for process-level efficiency improvements.
- Provided continuous benchmarking capabilities, helping refine strategies and meet sustainability objectives.
- Live Performance Intelligence:
- Delivered intuitive dashboards highlighting resource consumption patterns, achieved savings, and project-level impact.
- Configured smart alert systems to notify teams of inefficiencies or anomalies, ensuring proactive interventions.
- Scalable and Secure Cloud Infrastructure:
- Hosted on Microsoft Azure for high scalability, robust encryption, and adherence to industry compliance standards.
- Enabled secure, global access for teams to monitor performance and make data-driven decisions collaboratively.
Results and Impact
GreenErgy’s implementation at Jotun delivered measurable improvements:
- Enhanced Resource Uptime:
- Achieved significant improvements in resource availability through real-time monitoring and optimization.
- Minimized downtime across operations by detecting and addressing inefficiencies promptly.
- Cost Savings:
- Identified and acted on cost-saving opportunities, reducing energy and water costs across all monitored cost centers.
- Tracked savings achieved through executed projects, ensuring alignment with financial goals.
- Specific Energy Consumption Optimization:
- Improved SEC metrics by optimizing energy and water usage per unit of production.
- Delivered continuous insights to refine processes and enhance sustainability.
- Energy Benchmarking Across Plants and Products:
- Established energy benchmarking standards to evaluate and optimize performance across different manufacturing sites and product lines.
- Enabled targeted improvements by identifying underperforming units and aligning them with best practices.
- Cybersecurity Compliance:
- Ensured data integrity and security through multi-layered protection measures, mitigating risks to critical infrastructure.
Key Achievements:
- Cost Center Attribution: Provided granular insights into resource costs and savings, enabling precise financial management.
- IT-OT Integration: Delivered a secure, unified network to bridge the gap between operational systems, sensors, and production data.
- Sustainability Leadership: Reinforced Jotun’s commitment to sustainability through measurable impact tracking and resource efficiency.
Conclusion
Jotun’s collaboration with Greenovative Energy highlights the transformative potential of technology in achieving sustainability and operational excellence. Through the GreenErgy platform, Jotun optimized resource management, tracked cost savings, and achieved resource uptime goals while aligning with environmental benchmarks and maintaining stringent cybersecurity practices.
Greenovative Energy continues to empower global organizations to redefine their approach to resource management. By delivering innovative solutions like GreenErgy, we help our partners unlock value, enhance efficiency, and achieve their sustainability ambitions.
About Greenovative
Greenovative Energy specializes in next-generation energy and water management solutions, integrating AI, IoT, and cloud technologies. Our flagship GreenErgy platform empowers businesses to optimize resource utilization, reduce costs, and drive sustainability with precision and scalability.
Visit us at: www.greenovative.com
