Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
2012
Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing SystemsAuthors:

• Sebastian Thiede
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ISBN: 978-3-642-25913-5 (Print) 978-3-642-25914-2  (Online)



Series: Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management

Thiede, Sebastian

2012, XXII, 198 p. 104 illus., 47 in color.

ISBN 978-3-642-25914-2

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About this book

• An innovative and comprehensive methodology towards energy efficiency in manufacturing is presented
•                                         Latest research on energy efficiency
•                                         Step-by-step procedures for application
•                                         The Contents are generic in nature but transferable to different branches
•                                         Three different case studies are provided
  

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 Introduction.- Theoretical Background.- Derivation of requirements and methodological approach.- State of research.- Concept development.- Application of concept.- Summary and Outlook.