In order to calculate your businesses Carbon Footprint, the system needs to determine any fuel overheads (fuel usage not directly linked to manufacturing activity), in order to do this you need to input your fuel/energy usage bills into Cim200. These should include regular bills for fuels such as Electricity and Gas, but also any fuels specifically used by machinery in your manufacturing environment. It should not include bills for fuels used by your vehicle fleet.
Note: You need to have specified the fuel in the Carbon Footprint Fuels screen before you can enter a bill for it.
The Overhead Fuels List displays any fuels or energy overheads already setup.
Maintaining Carbon Footprint Overheads
From the menu: Works Orders > Utilities > System Setup > Carbon Footprint Calculations > Maintain Carbon Footprint Overheads
- To add a new fuel overhead, click the Add button beneath the list.
Note: You will need a fuel/energy bill available in order to input the required information to create the fuel overhead.
Note: This should be one of the last steps in setting up the carbon footprint calculations, it is recommended that you have configured your machines with the relevant fuels they use before setting up fuel overheads.
- To amend an existing fuel overhead, select the fuel and click the Edit button beneath the list.
- To remove an existing fuel overhead, select the fuel and click the Delete button beneath the list.
Adding a Fuel Overhead
- Select the Fuel Code for the bill you are inputting.
- The Description will automatically populate showing the Fuel Code Description.
- Enter the Billing Period Start Date and Billing Period End Date. This should match the billing period shown on your fuel/energy bill.
- The system will calculate your fuel overheads taking into account production output during the billing period. If you do not have any production history in Cim200 for the billing period, or you would prefer the system not take production output into account automatically, then tick the Ignore actual production output check box.
- Enter the fuel usage amount specified on your fuel/energy bill.
- Press the Calculate button (Calculator icon) to have the system automatically calculate your hourly fuel overhead. This figure is calculated based on the fuel usage specified during the billing period, taking into account machine hours processed during the billing period, and the hourly fuel usage specified on each of those machines, any surplus energy billed but not used by machines during the billing period is considered an overhead, with that surplus then being divided by the number of hours in the billing period to generate the Calculated hourly overhead. Alternatively, you can manually enter a figure into the Calculated hourly overhead field.