Overview

The incessant growth in electricity demand, increased share of renewables, electrification, infrastructure aging, and IoTization are key challenges for a smooth energy transition. For continuous improvement, a strategic approach is required to maintain a balance among production performance, cost, and environmental impact. This demands transparency on all aforementioned factors as a first step.

Key Aspects:

• Environmental Impact
• Energy Cost
• Performance

Sustainability/Energy Management in Electrification X addresses a wide range of audiences from management to shopfloor level. From a global energy performance overview to device-level data transparency, you can monitor, track, improve, and report all key performance indicators.

The module delivers a comprehensive summary of your facility, identifying potential hotspots for improvement. It also accelerates your response to anomalies and variances with the help of notifications. The monitoring solution offers energy performance evaluation against other business KPIs to further support energy strategy, operation, maintenance, and decarbonization roadmaps.

Functions

Asset Data Transparency

The asset data transparency allows the monitoring of status and energy data for connected assets. Asset information, cost center allocation, energy data logs, and notifications against assets are all represented in the asset view. Furthermore, load profiles, peak loads, and heat maps facilitate load management and source mix optimization. All related KPIs are established, and the selection of time period is customized to generate the desired energy log.

[Image: A tablet screen displaying asset data transparency with a list of assets, their status, and energy information.]

Energy Overview

The energy overview allows for an energy performance overview of all industrial locations. The global energy performance dashboard reflects cumulative results for energy, cost, carbon emissions, and green electricity contribution. Other measuring variables for water and heat can also be displayed. The geographical location view illustrates energy KPI performance marked with color coding, aiding in the quick visualization of under-performing sites. In addition to EnPIs, all scope emissions are displayed along with source mix information. Upon site selection from the map view, the user is directed to the individual site's energy performance dashboard.

All events/notifications related to sustainability can be visualized in the main geographical location view.

[Image: Two tablet screens showing energy overview dashboards. The first shows a global overview with charts for total energy, cost, carbon emissions, and green electricity. The second shows a site-specific overview with similar metrics.]

Cost Analysis

The cost analysis feature provides a cost overview with respect to the source mix, including both renewable and non-renewable sources. Cost allocation is simplified with energy spent per cost center visualization. A comparative analysis can be performed for customized periods to report variances in energy cost, facilitating the identification of cost optimization measures.

[Image: A tablet screen displaying cost analysis with charts and data related to energy costs by feeder and cost center.]

Saving Potential Identification

eSankey provides transparency on energy flow from generation to consumption. Losses are identified at each stage of the process flow. The interactive display allows tracing back the source of each consumer, facilitating a better understanding of the energy network.

[Image: A tablet screen showing an eSankey diagram illustrating energy flow and identifying losses.]

Energy Benchmarking

A detailed feeder analysis allows a comprehensive insight into energy consumption trends for selected feeders and provides the possibility for comparative study across different time ranges and peer facilities. Details related to energy consumption and respective unit prices for the selected time range are exportable. This encourages standardization of processes across locations, identification of underperforming assets/facilities, and implementation of best practices.

[Image: A tablet screen displaying asset analysis with charts and data related to energy consumption and costs.]

Project Tracking

Project tracker enables monitoring of the progress, performance, and impact of energy initiatives. It helps ensure accountability, manage timelines and budgets, and measure energy savings and emission reductions. Integrated tracking supports continuous improvement by aligning projects with energy goals and sustainability targets.

[Image: A tablet screen showing a project tracking dashboard with progress indicators, budgets, and savings data.]

Target Setting and Dynamic Roadmap

Set specific, measurable targets across energy use, cost, emission, and EnPIs. Added value stems from a dynamic roadmap that updates automatically based on performance data, enabling organizations to track progress, adjust actions, close gaps, and stay aligned with evolving goals. This ensures continuous alignment with cost-efficiency and sustainability strategies.

[Image: A tablet screen displaying target analysis with charts and data related to energy optimization and cost reduction targets.]

Regression Analysis

Use statistical modeling to identify relationships between energy consumption and influencing factors like weather, area, production, or revenue. This enables accurate baseline creation, performance tracking, and anomaly detection for better decision-making and energy optimization.

[Image: A tablet screen showing energy analysis with regression curves plotting energy consumption against factors like temperature and humidity.]

Customizable Reporting

Generate customizable reports on energy, cost, and emissions over any desired time range or frequency, in multiple formats (.csv, .pdf) and multiple languages (English, German). Reports can be extracted at any asset level within the topology for tailored insights and can be accessible for relevant stakeholders.

[Image: A tablet screen displaying a reporting engine interface with options to generate and customize reports.]

Subscription

The Electrification X – Sustainability/Energy Management feature set subscription plan is a regular, scalable offering for this Cloud Service. The subscription term is twelve (12) months with automatic renewal; the Cloud Service fee is paid in advance. The subscription plan can be upscaled at any time, and Cloud Service fees for upscales are calculated on a pro-rated basis. The Customer can also scale down the Cloud Service effective with the end of the current subscription term. The subscription fee will be adjusted for the upcoming billing term. The Cloud Service can be cancelled any time, effective with the end of the current subscription term.

The subscription plan can be purchased in packages per industrial location and per asset connected. The subscription plan assumes an industrial location refers to one unique postal address or geographical coordinates.

Extended Use entitles the Customer to authorize its Affiliates and third parties to access and use the Cloud Services in accordance with the rights set out in the Terms and Conditions.

Prerequisites

Supported Connected Devices

The Cloud Service is currently compatible with commercially available Connected Devices from Siemens. A description of the available Connected Devices is provided below.

A Connected Device must be purchased and installed on premise at a site specified by the Customer as agreed between the Customer and Siemens to use the Cloud Service. The Customer is responsible for installing the Connected Device at the site and any associated costs to perform said Cloud Service in accordance with related Documentation for the Connected Device.

List of supported Connected Devices: SICAM A8000 Gateway

For order information, Customer may contact its local sales representative.

Web browser and viewing devices

Chrome is recommended to use the Cloud Service, but other standard browsers might also serve this function. Screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels or higher is recommended for best user experience.

Internet Connection

The bandwidth of the Customer's internet connection determines the performance of the Cloud Service.

Ordering

Ordering Process for the Subscription

To order the Cloud Service for the first time, Customer must request a quote from its Siemens sales representative. The Customer will receive a link to the shopping cart. The Customer needs to (i) choose the payment options and (ii) accept the Terms and Conditions to start using the Cloud Service. The “Terms and Conditions” consist of the “Electrification and Automation IoT Products Specific Terms”, the Siemens Universal Customer Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Siemens Data Processing Terms, this Product and Service Data Sheet, and any other Supplemental Terms which may be referenced in either of the mentioned documents. Customer may upgrade, downgrade, and cancel the Cloud Services directly in the Subscription Manager store at https://subscribe.siemens.com.

Ordering Connected Devices

To order Connected Devices, the Customer may request a quote from its Siemens sales representative.

Product Documentation

Technical Documents can be downloaded here: https://support.industry.siemens.com/

Topology

[Diagram: A network topology illustrating the connection between remote devices, the cloud platform (Electrification X), data centers, and the site. It shows data flow from field level devices to the cloud and then to browsers or data centers. A Siemens PAC 4200 is shown at the field level.]

Data communication between the Connected Devices on premise and the Cloud Service requires internet connectivity (to be provided by the Customer).

Specific Terms

Third Party Terms for Use of the Cloud Service

Software may contain third-party software, technology, and other materials, including open-source software, licensed by third parties under separate terms (“Third Party Terms”), which are specified in the “read me” files, header files, notice files, or similar files. Third Party Terms shall prevail with respect to the respective technology. If and to the extent required by Third Party Terms, Siemens will provide the source code for the respective technology upon written request and payment of any shipping charges by Customer.

High Risk Use

The Cloud Service is not designed to be used (i) for the operation of or within a High Risk System if the functioning of the High Risk System is dependent on the proper functioning of the Cloud Services and (ii) where the outcome from any processing of data through the use of the Cloud Services is beyond Siemens' control. High Risk System means a device or system that requires enhanced safety functionalities such as fail-safe or fault-tolerant features to maintain a safe state where it is reasonably foreseeable that failure of the device or system could lead directly to death, personal injury, or catastrophic property damage. Customer shall refer to the restrictions set forth in the Terms and Conditions.

Service Level Agreement

Siemens shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Cloud Services available for a monthly uptime percentage of ninety-eight percent (98%).

Except for:

• a) Planned downtime, agreed downtime, routine and emergency maintenance,
• b) Cyberattacks,
• c) the public, third party and/or customer's internet and communications networks,
• d) data, software, hardware, telecommunications, infrastructure, power, build-packs or net-working equipment not provided by Siemens,
• e) Customers and Users negligence or failure in using the Cloud Service and/or in not following the instructions of published documentation,
• f) system configurations and platforms not supported by Siemens,
• g) system administrations, action, commands and file transfers of Customer or User,
• h) modifications or alterations not made by Siemens,
• i) unauthorized access via Customer's credentials and/or
• j) any other failure outside of Siemens reasonable control

Customer Support

Siemens offers helpdesk support. Customer may contact its local Siemens representative for support requests.