Dear Reader:

It’s always good to measure where your plant stands not only in comparison to where it once was (in order to drive and quantify continuous improvement), but to measure how you compare to other plants across America vis-à-vis any of a variety of available metrics from which to build those models.

Our industrial Energy Services Company routinely makes these comparisons in preparation for a lighting project, and again post-project. We want to know what we’re coming into – in terms of pre-project lighting system performance, as well as how successful we were in driving previously wasted electricity consumption out of the system after the project has been executed.

Oberlo tells a nice story on their website that not only explains the value of benchmarking, but describes the benchmarking process. While Oberlo itself isn’t geared toward the facilities industry directly, it’s a good, generi...