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With all due respect, the engineers and the environmentalists have had their say about energy efficiency. Now it's time to make a compelling business case. From corporate officer to machine operator, readers will learn how manufacturing organizations use energy to create wealth. Forward-thinking business leaders manage fuels and electricity with the same care that they use in handling cash or currency. A top-down corporate strategy allows energy to be invested, preserved, and ultimately positioned to create wealth. "The Industrial Energy Harvest" uses examples to show a strong financial case for energy improvements, including the save-or-buy criterion, the economic penalty for "doing nothing," the break-even cost, and the budget for supporting design and analysis work. Most importantly, this book explains the role of energy in terms that make efficiency improvements more compelling to hard-nosed business leaders.