Crane Currency – Real-Time Energy Monitoring for Smart Manufacturing
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May 26, 2026
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Crane Currency – Real-Time Energy Monitoring for Smart Manufacturing
Crane Currency, a globally recognized supplier of central banks and issuing authorities, provides sophisticated banknote solutions including design services, currency papers, printing capabilities, and anti-counterfeiting technologies.
As part of its operations, Crane Currency’s Dalton, Massachusetts campus handles significant resource loads, including energy, gas, and water, within a central manufacturing facility.
Challenge
Operating a highly secure, precision-driven manufacturing facility like Crane’s Dalton campus comes with several operational and sustainability challenges:
- Complex Resource Usage: Continuous consumption of electricity, steam, and water across large central plants demands careful tracking.
- Lack of Real-Time Insight: Without real-time monitoring, Crane risked inefficiencies, overconsumption, and elevated operating costs.
- Cost Allocation Transparency: Accurately attributing resource costs to internal departments, operations, or production lines was difficult without fine-grained visibility.
- Legacy Energy Management: Not Integrating with newer meters.
Solution
FacilityConneX implemented its Smart Manufacturing platform to address these challenges at the Dalton campus. The core components of the solution included:
- Meter IoT Data Collection & Visualization: Integration of electrical, gas, steam and water meters into a centralized monitoring system.
- Real-Time Energy Management Dashboards: Live visualization of resource consumption on intuitive dashboards and intelligent key performance indicators (KPI) alarms built with energy analytics and consumption analysis.
- Cost Allocation Exporting: Capabilities to allocate and export utility costs to the appropriate cost centers or departments.
- Long-Term Monitoring: Implemented over a sustained period, capturing trends and enabling continuous improvement.
How FacilityConneX Helped
FacilityConneX implemented its Smart Manufacturing platform to address these challenges at the Dalton campus. The core components of the solution included:
- Meter Data Collection & Visualization: Integration of electrical, gas, steam and water meters into a centralized monitoring system.
- Real-Time Energy Management Dashboards: Live visualization of resource consumption with intuitive dashboards and intelligent alarms.
- Cost Allocation Exporting: Capabilities to allocate and export utility costs to the appropriate cost centers or departments.
- Long-Term Monitoring: Implemented over a sustained period, capturing trends and enabling continuous improvement.
Summary
Organization: Crane Currency (Dalton, MA manufacturing campus)
Platform Implemented: FacilityConneX Smart Manufacturing / Real Time Energy Management
Duration: 5 years plus of continuous operation
Key Benefits: Real‑time insights into utility usage, cost‑allocation precision, improved operational efficiency, and sustained sustainability oversight.
Results at a Glance
- Global banknote manufacturer with complex, high-load utility environment
- 5+ years of continuous real-time energy and resource monitoring
- Enabled precise cost allocation across departments and operations.
- Uncovered steam system mismatch → $50K+ savings and operational shift.
- Improved visibility for operations, finance, and leadership teams.
Crane Currency – Real-Time Energy Monitoring for Smart Manufacturing
Crane Currency, a globally recognized supplier of central banks and issuing authorities, provides sophisticated banknote solutions including design services, currency papers, printing capabilities, and anti-counterfeiting technologies.
As part of its operations, Crane Currency’s Dalton, Massachusetts campus handles significant resource loads, including energy, gas, and water, within a central manufacturing facility.
Challenge
Operating a highly secure, precision-driven manufacturing facility like Crane’s Dalton campus comes with several operational and sustainability challenges:
- Complex Resource Usage: Continuous consumption of electricity, steam, and water across large central plants demands careful tracking.
- Lack of Real-Time Insight: Without real-time monitoring, Crane risked inefficiencies, overconsumption, and elevated operating costs.
- Cost Allocation Transparency: Accurately attributing resource costs to internal departments, operations, or production lines was difficult without fine-grained visibility.
- Legacy Energy Management: Not Integrating with newer meters.
Solution
FacilityConneX implemented its Smart Manufacturing platform to address these challenges at the Dalton campus. The core components of the solution included:
- Meter IoT Data Collection & Visualization: Integration of electrical, gas, steam and water meters into a centralized monitoring system.
- Real-Time Energy Management Dashboards: Live visualization of resource consumption on intuitive dashboards and intelligent key performance indicators (KPI) alarms built with energy analytics and consumption analysis.
- Cost Allocation Exporting: Capabilities to allocate and export utility costs to the appropriate cost centers or departments.
- Long-Term Monitoring: Implemented over a sustained period, capturing trends and enabling continuous improvement.
How FacilityConneX Helped
FacilityConneX implemented its Smart Manufacturing platform to address these challenges at the Dalton campus. The core components of the solution included:
- Meter Data Collection & Visualization: Integration of electrical, gas, steam and water meters into a centralized monitoring system.
- Real-Time Energy Management Dashboards: Live visualization of resource consumption with intuitive dashboards and intelligent alarms.
- Cost Allocation Exporting: Capabilities to allocate and export utility costs to the appropriate cost centers or departments.
- Long-Term Monitoring: Implemented over a sustained period, capturing trends and enabling continuous improvement.
Summary
Organization: Crane Currency (Dalton, MA manufacturing campus)
Platform Implemented: FacilityConneX Smart Manufacturing / Real Time Energy Management
Duration: 5 years plus of continuous operation
Key Benefits: Real‑time insights into utility usage, cost‑allocation precision, improved operational efficiency, and sustained sustainability oversight.
Results at a Glance
- Global banknote manufacturer with complex, high-load utility environment
- 5+ years of continuous real-time energy and resource monitoring
- Enabled precise cost allocation across departments and operations.
- Uncovered steam system mismatch → $50K+ savings and operational shift.
- Improved visibility for operations, finance, and leadership teams.
FacilityConneX can help you identify, prioritize, and solve problems before they become risks. Want help choosing the right system, or need a second opinion on your current setup? We’re just a message away. Contact FacilityConneX at info@facilityconnex.com to learn how secure cloud-based solutions can provide complete data visibility without operational disruption.
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