Energy-Oriented Production Planning in Industry: A Systematic Literature Review and Classification Scheme

Abstract

Scarcity of resources, structural change during the further development of renewable energy sources, and their corresponding costs, such as increasing resource costs or penalties due to dirty production, lead industrial firms to adapt ecological actions. In this regard, research on energy utilization in production planning has received increased attention in the last years, resulting in a large number of research articles so far. With the paper at hand, we review the literature on energy-oriented production planning. The aim of this study is to derive similar core issues and related properties along energy-oriented models within hierarchical production planning. For this, we carry out a systematic literature review and analyze and synthesize 375 research articles. We classify the underlying literature with a novel two-dimensional classification scheme and identify three key topics and five frequently found characteristics, which are presented in detail throughout this article. Based on these results, we state several potentials for further research.

Social Sustainability in Production Planning: A Systematic Literature Review

“…This systematic literature review was conducted based on an established methodology as presented in Figure 3 (according to [49,50]), which is regularly used for systematic literature reviews on aspects of production planning (see, e.g., [2,13,[51][52][53][54]).…”

“…meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" [1]. While the economic and environmental aspects have already been discussed widely (see, e.g., [2]), the social dimension is often neglected [3]. Especially, economic aspects are often prioritized over social aspects, although social improvements could provide financial benefits [4].…”

Integrated lot-sizing and energy supply planning with onsite generation of intermittent renewable energy

“…Basically, energy-efficient production planning aims at computing production plans considering not only the traditional production-related costs but also energy-related objectives and constraints. The reader is referred to (Gahm et al 2016;Biel and Glock 2016;Gao et al 2020;Bänsch et al 2021;Terbrack, Claus, and Herrmann 2021) for comprehensive literature reviews on this field. In what follows, we discuss the works most closely related to dynamic lot-sizing.…”

Integration of production scheduling and energy-cost optimization using Mean Value Cross Decomposition

“…The problem is solved iteratively by gradually fixing the time depended states of the energy production units on the lower level. For an extensive recent survey about combining energy use with production planning, see Terbrack et al (2021).…”

“…The practical implementation does still require more investigation to assure the convergence and near optimality of solutions obtained. The combined production planning and energy management optimization has recently 1 GAMS: https://www.gams.com/ , LPL: https://virtual-optima.com/ 2 Pyomo: http://www.pyomo.org/ , Pymoo: https://pymoo.org/, JuMP: https://jump.dev/ 3 FORTUM: https://www.fortum.fi/kotiasiakkaille/sahkoa-kotiin/fiksu, OptiWatti: https://www.optiwatti.fi received more attention, see, e.g., Terbrack et al (2021). This could be one area of industrial applications where price coordination schemes might be of use.…”