Lotte Food-Godeung Technology Research Institute-Lotte Information & Communication MOU Signing
Participants of the Factory Energy Management System Development Project MOU at Lotte Food Cheonan Plant on the 5th are taking a commemorative photo. From the left, Jaehoe Koo, Research Director at the Advanced Technology Research Institute; Hamin Ryu, Head of Production Division at Lotte Food; and Jinho Lee, Head of Smart Systems Division at Lotte Information & Communication.
[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Lotte Food is taking the lead in reducing energy consumption in food factories by becoming the first major domestic food company to introduce a Factory Energy Management System (FEMS).
On the 8th, Lotte Food announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the High Technology Research Institute and Lotte Information & Communication regarding the introduction of the Factory Energy Management System.
The Factory Energy Management System (FEMS) is an ICT convergence solution aimed at improving energy efficiency by optimizing energy usage and costs to suit the production demand of large-scale factory facilities. Utilizing advanced ICT technology, it monitors energy usage and operational status of equipment to predict energy demand and supply appropriate energy accordingly, thereby reducing energy consumption and costs. Implementation cases are expanding mainly among leading companies in manufacturing industries and major energy-consuming enterprises, and it is being introduced for the first time in the food industry at Lotte Food’s Cheonan factory.
In food factories, energy-intensive processes such as sterilization, pasteurization, heating, refrigeration, and freezing are commonly performed. Through this operation, Lotte Food plans to accumulate empirical data to enhance system operation technology by optimizing steam supply in sterilization processes, optimizing unit consumption linked to product quality in heating processes, optimal temperature control in frozen storage warehouses, and predicting and optimizing waste energy recovery. With the accumulated know-how, Lotte Food aims to reduce energy consumption in sterilization and processing operations and apply this across domestic food factories.
Through this MOU, the High Technology Research Institute will provide infrastructure and data analysis necessary for technology development projects; Lotte Food’s Cheonan factory will designate target processes and provide energy consumption data according to production; and Lotte Information & Communication will support verification of equipment system integration and promote smart factory project discovery. The High Technology Research Institute plans to review the applicability of the technology and proceed with development and demonstration through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s energy technology development project tailored to the food industry’s factory energy management system.
A Lotte Food official stated, “We will actively cooperate to achieve energy reduction across the domestic food industry through the operation of this system,” adding, “We will create effective energy reduction know-how through empirical data collection and accumulation of expertise.”
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