Our commitment to energy efficiency and sustainable business practices is being recognised: Mondas GmbH has featured Brugger Magnetsysteme as a use case on its website – providing a detailed insight into our energy monitoring and the success of our PV strategy.

Data-driven energy management with Mondas

For several years now, we at Brugger have been relying on the Mondas data platform to provide transparency into our energy flows. The platform records the electricity consumption of virtually all energy-intensive machinery, our three photovoltaic systems and other consumers within the company – thereby revealing opportunities for optimisation.

The aim: to identify potential savings, make investment decisions based on real consumption data, and use the solar power we generate ourselves as efficiently as possible.

The figures speak for themselves

Our three PV systems (Plant 1), with a total output of approximately 250 kWp, cover around 30 per cent of our total electricity requirements. By 2025, our self-consumption rate – that is, the proportion of solar power we use directly within the company – will already stand at 66 per cent.

Layout of the solar installations:

Plant 1 (shown on the dashboard):
South-facing roof/green flat roof totalling 97.4 kWp (the system dates from 2003 and therefore still has a relatively low output)
North-facing roof: 120.5 kWp
Canopy: 32.0 kWp
Total: 249.9 kWp

Additional systems at Plant 2 (not yet shown on the dashboard):
System 1: 33.5 kWp
System 2: 11.3 kWp
System 3: 10.7 kWp
Total: 55.5 kWp

Total capacity of all installations: 305.4 kWp

A concrete example of data-driven decision-making: in 2023, we switched the lighting in our production and warehouse halls to LED technology. The Mondas data confirms the effect: in the relevant hall areas, electricity consumption fell by around 50 per cent – whilst light quality improved.

Opportunities for the future

Continuous data collection reveals further opportunities for improving energy efficiency:

• Load shifting: Machinery such as vibratory polishers, regranulators and injection moulding machines could be operated specifically when there is a particularly high level of solar power available.
• E-mobility: In future, charging processes for electric vehicles can be aligned with PV output.
• Battery storage: Based on load profiles, we can economically size a storage system.
• ERP integration: As a next step, we aim to derive machine running times from electricity data and link them to our ERP system – this will allow energy costs to be allocated to individual products on a cost-attribution basis.

Data transparency as a recommendation

“I recommend that every company establish data transparency,” says Managing Director Thomas Brugger. “We have had very positive experiences with it. With the Mondas data platform, we can now identify many further cost-saving measures, plan them optimally and also assess them from a cost-effectiveness perspective.”

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→ You can find the full use case on the Mondas website:
mondas-iot.com/referenzen/use-cases/wirtschaften-mit-der-sonne

→ You can view our Mondas monitoring dashboard live here:
Link to the dashboard