Patent Document ID: 20050143953
Application ID: 10905290
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for real-time targeting and monitoring, performing gap analysis, identifying and diagnosing significant deviations, and highlighting corrective actions for the energy performance of manufacturing facilities comprising: utilizing a customizable software application and computerized system to perform the following tasks: develop and populate the software application's database; and enter current energy usages and costs, department operating rates, and ambient conditions into the invention's software application; and run the application's software to calculate target energy usages and costs, statistical analysis of actual versus target deviations, and perform a gap analysis of actual versus target values; and diagnose the probable cause of significant deviations and highlight actions to be taken to reduce the deviations; and display the calculated values on the application's performance report; and store the calculated results in the application's database; and electronically export the calculated results and the performance, to the production departments, the organization's MIS, or other designated electronically connected destination and/or print these as hard copy reports.