Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing Systems

✍ Scribed by Sebastian Thiede (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Energy consumption is of great interest to manufacturing companies. Beyond considering individual processes and machines, the perspective on process chains and factories as a whole holds major potentials for energy efficiency improvements. To exploit these potentials, dynamic interactions of different processes as well as auxiliary equipment (e.g. compressed air generation) need to be taken into account. In addition, planning and controlling manufacturing systems require balancing technical, economic and environmental objectives. Therefore, an innovative and comprehensive methodology – with a generic energy flow-oriented manufacturing simulation environment as a core element – is developed and embedded into a step-by-step application cycle. The concept is applied in its entirety to a wide range of case studies such as aluminium die casting, weaving mills, and printed circuit board assembly in order to demonstrate the broad applicability and the benefits that can be achieved.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-19
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Theoretical Background....Pages 9-34
Derivation of Requirements and Methodological Approach....Pages 35-49
State of Research....Pages 51-88
Concept Development....Pages 89-144
Application of Concept....Pages 145-169
Summary and Outlook....Pages 171-177
Back Matter....Pages 0--1

✦ Subjects

Energy Economics; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Simulation and Modeling; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings)