Bentley University of Waltham, Massachusetts, says it has significantly reduced campus electrical consumption and carbon emissions by integrating energy management with traditional asset management using Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition (ASE).
Bentley University chose Infor EAM ASE with the goal to automate maintenance workflow across the campus’s 46 facilities and bring it further towards its goal of climate neutrality, to be done in two stages; reducing carbon footprint by 50% by 2015 and 100% by 2030.
Infor EAM ASE tracks the consumption of individual assets in real-time, providing a more complete understanding of the true costs to operate and maintain an asset. The university
reports that in the first 11 months of using Infor EAM, it reduced campus-wide electrical consumption by 10 percent – the equivalent of turning off all electricity on campus for approximately 30 days. The new Infor system has also helped the University achieve a 25 percent time savings on responses to 35,000 work orders processed, and reduced equipment failures through predictive maintenance.
"We discovered a tool to help us meet our energy and emissions goals, while also saving money," said Tom Kane, director of facilities, Bentley University. “Infor EAM ASE supplies real-time insight with a smooth implementation so that large enterprise initiatives, like the ones we’ve set forth, can be achieved on even aggressive timelines. We’ve already seen major reductions in our electrical consumption and carbon footprint, and are well on track to reach carbon neutrality by 2030."
Rod Ellsworth, vice president of global asset management, Infor told FSN, “Many traditional asset management systems operate on set inspection and maintenance schedules, which can lead to underperforming equipment consuming excess energy until scheduled inspection. This is harmful not only to the environment, but also the bottom line. Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition enables organisations, such as Bentley University, to monitor assets so that a work order is automatically issued when a piece of equipment is operating at above predetermined levels of energy consumption, reducing energy and related expenditures by as much as 20 percent.”
