Everyone is concerned about energy these days. Heck, the high price of fuel of all kinds is enough of a reason. Vigilistics has just introduced some software to help processing facilities out. Their new software package offers real-time operations intelligence and energy-use analysis

“The cost of natural gas has doubled in the last few years,” said Robert Moore, Vigilistics CEO. “Our customers urged us to add energy management capabilities to the Vigilistics real-time operations intelligence software, which is already used by dairy processors for reducing milk losses.” Vigilistics offers five configurable modules for energy management.

The Vigilistics energy management modules are available as options to the Vigilistics real-time operations intelligence software. Other capabilities include milk loss reduction and product genealogy tracking and tracing.

“The energy savings opportunity for a dairy plant will generally pay for the Vigilistics energy management system in a few months,” said Ron Huffman, director of operations analysis for Vigilistics. “For some dairy products the energy cost is already 40 percent of the manufacturing cost, and natural gas prices are expected to go even higher than they are today.”