Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing Systems

Abstract

Modern production enables a high standard of living worldwide through products and services. Global responsibility requires a comprehensive integration of sustainable development fostered by new paradigms, innovative technologies, methods and tools as well as business models. Minimizing material and energy usage, adapting material and energy flows to better fit natural process capacities, and changing consumption behaviour are important aspects of future production. A life cycle perspective and an integrated economic, ecological and social evaluation are essential requirements in management and engineering. This series will focus on the issues and latest developments towards sustainability in production based on life cycle thinking.

A simple energy usage toolkit from manufacturing simulation data

“…Unsurprisingly, research into unit-process and process chain level energy simulation has increased in the past decade M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT (Heilala et al 2013;Thiede et al 2013;Wright et al 2013). Recent research by Thiede (2012a) aimed at a holistic energy simulation which considered all three levels of energy usage within a facility including all relevant energy flows (such as steam, compressed air and electricity). This work proposed a generic energy simulation methodology built around the multi-method capabilities of Anylogic ® , but required the construction of a unique agent based simulation from scratch.…”

A Unified Sustainable Manufacturing Capability Model for Representing Industrial Robot Systems in Cloud Manufacturing

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An Extended Energy Value Stream Approach Applied on the Electronics Industry

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