KBC launches Visual MESA Energy Management System 7.3
- Real-time energy and emissions optimization with optimal scheduling and tracking
KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has launched its Visual MESA® Energy Management System (EMS) version 7.3, an advanced real-time, model-based, energy digital twin suite of applications. At a time of continued focus on energy costs and carbon emissions, this latest release helps refining, petrochemicals and other energy-intensive industries drive reductions in both. It facilitates decision-making by combining real-time plant data with rigorous first-principles modeling.
Built for complex, multi-facility environments, version 7.3 enhances flexibility, cloud readiness and connectivity to support energy cost reduction and decarbonization initiatives. This release improves the scalable, multi-objective optimization and optimal scheduling tools used to drive real-time performance and enable sustainable, autonomous operations.
Key features and enhancements include:
- Seamless cloud integration—Enhanced API compatibility with the KBC Acuity™ Industrial Cloud Suite enables secure, scalable workflows for cloud based multi-site energy management.
- Docker-ready, web-based management—EMS Services Manager enables faster, more secure, and scalable cloud deployment.
- Multi-period optimization (MPO) API control—External systems now trigger MPO optimal schedule runs to broaden forecasting and real-time optimization strategies.
- Improved forecasting—Intuitive, role-based user interface for forecasting and multi-period optimal energy scheduling.
- New modeling capabilities—Expanded simulation and optimization blocks library to optimize industrial clusters in real-time and evaluate transition options.
- Historian integration and improved cybersecurity—Updated internal historian and libraries address vulnerabilities for improved security.
Visual MESA EMS v7.3 supports the shift from centralized, fossil-based systems to distributed, electricity-intensive architectures that include renewables and energy storage. By creating a digital twin model of the energy system, the software enables automatic, data-driven decisions that balance cost, emissions, and operational priorities.
The same energy system model applies from design to operations, in either open- or closed-loop configurations, to facilitate autonomous forecasting, optimal scheduling and real-time optimization. All energy sources from renewables and conventional fuels to power or products storage options can be modeled, managed, and optimized within a unified system. From a single web page, users can align long-term sustainability goals with everyday performance for Bringing Decarbonization to Life®.
“With version 7.3, Visual MESA EMS becomes the most advanced real-time, cloud-ready energy management platform in our long-established applications suite,” said Carlos Ruiz, Product Champion. “It is designed to accelerate digital integration and improve energy and emissions performance at scale, from individual sites to industrial clusters.”
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