Energy-Efficiency Concept for the Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

Depletion of fossil energy sources, rising energy prices and government regulation coerces manufacturing companies to foster their energyefficiency. Among others, Information and communication technologies (ICT) are considered to be major enablers for improving the energy-efficiency. In this paper a concept for energy-efficiency based on an Event-driven Architecture (EDA) using Complex-Event-Processing (CEP) is presented that supports the integration of sensor data from the shop-floor level into the company's decision support systems. Finally, a use-case for implementing the proposed concept in a real production environment is presented.

Energy efficiency in discrete-manufacturing systems: Insights, trends, and control strategies

“…At the plant level, in which there exist more complex relations and large-scale system schemes are considered, some of the main research topics for designing control strategies are focus on understanding the energy consumption of systems seen from this level. In this sense, Stich et al [1] introduce a conceptual framework for energy efficiency based on an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and Complex-Event-Processing (CEP) with the aim to provide detailed information about the energy deviations of factory targets that can be useful for the production planning and control of manufacturing systems. In the same way, Krones and Müller [116] have proposed an approach for reducing energy consumption by providing a selection method of the more appropriate energy efficiency measures to be used by factory planning participants, with the aim to overcome the high efforts to acquire energy data.…”

“…The depletion of fossil energy sources, rising energy prices, and governmental regulation restrictions have motivated that many industries around the world have looked at sustainability as a way to reduce their production costs and increase their energy efficiency [1,2]. These facts arise since industrial sector accounts for more of 30% of the electrical energy consumption in the world, and the manufacturing industry consumed near to 50% of that energy, as shown in Figure 1 [3].…”