Croom Medical - Energy and Water Monitoring System

Company Overview

Croom Medical, situated in Croom, Co. Limerick, specialises in orthopaedic medical device manufacturing, aerospace components and tooling services. The company is accredited to ISO14001 and ISO13485 and their current goals are to achieve a 20% reduction in carbon emissions by 2026 and for their facility to be carbon neutral by 2032.

Project Objectives

To roll out a live energy monitoring system throughout the entire facility for large manufacturing assets, lighting, air conditioning, air handling, compressed air and integrate directly to their internal manufacturing floor reporting program where each business unit leader will receive a report on yesterday's energy usage within their specific cells.

Integrate water consumption and use of treated water of the facility to this BMS system. 

Results

The live energy monitoring system is now fully deployed and operational across the entire facility. Every electricity, solar and water meter on site is read by the UI-ECM (Energy Control & Monitoring) system and snapshotted into our internal Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at 15-minute resolution, with all readings retained indefinitely to support energy audits. Metering coverage spans all major asset categories: CNC machining, production lines, compressed air, extraction systems, finishing, HVAC, lighting, cleaning, solar PV generation and water.

Energy consumption is reported directly into the manufacturing floor reporting programme by work centre and by shift, and is correlated with production output from the ERP system so that energy intensity (kWh per unit produced, energy cost per part and per work order) is now a measured, daily metric for each business unit. Equipment benchmarking refreshes every five minutes, automated anomaly detection runs on every 15-minute snapshot (off-hours waste, consumption spikes, degrading efficiency, idle equipment drawing power, compressor anomalies and solar underperformance), and a real-time alert centre monitors all systems on 30-second intervals with full acknowledge/resolve workflow.

Water consumption is fully integrated: the Uisce Éireann metered supply is monitored alongside an internal totaliser on the same inlet, with per-meter flow rates, shift and weekend usage patterns, and automated leak/waste rules (off-hours flow above 500 L/hr, sustained off-hours flow above 150 L/hr, low production flow, data gaps and 3x spike detection) checked every 15 minutes with automatic resolution. A trade effluent charge estimator models the incoming Uisce Éireann Category 1 charging regime from measured discharge.

Croom Medical’s rooftop solar PV array is monitored live within the same system, generating approximately 47,000 kWh per annum (offsetting circa €12,000 of grid electricity at the monitored commercial rate), with year-on-year degradation and soiling detection now automated. The system also provides a cost optimisation engine (time-of-use tariff analysis, load-shifting recommendations, peak demand and maximum import capacity guardrails), predictive maintenance on compressors and tooling, and an EirGrid demand-side response feasibility model on sheddable evening-peak load.

Carbon and sustainability reporting is generated from the same measured data: Scope 2 electricity emissions (SEAI grid factor), Scope 3 upstream (water) and downstream (waste) emissions, CO₂ per part produced, and customer-level Scope 3 energy allocation exportable for CSRD questionnaires. Waste collections (general, hazardous and recyclable, with weights and certificate numbers) are reconciled against supplier invoices in their ERP with automatic anomaly flagging. These outputs track progress against their 20& carbon reduction target for 2026 and support their ISO 14001 system and SEAI EXEED energy performance indicators.

Impact

“The energy and water monitoring system is critical to enabling Croom Medical’s management team to make the right decisions at the right time in reducing their carbon footprint. All metrics and KPI’s are available to their customers on an as-needed basis.”

Patrick Byrnes, CEO

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