Many facilities upgrade their systems to include VFDs, premium efficiency motors, soft starts, and other products and claim a savings on operational and maintenance cost without evaluating the projects before, or verifying after. This seminar is a brief introduction into the methods of finding the largest users of energy and maintenance costs, implementing solutions, and measuring results. This will avoid capital costs going into technology that do not have a benefit, or may be eventually costing even more money in the long run.