A generic energy consumption model for decision making

and energy efficiency optimisation in manufacturing

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DOI:10.1080/19397030902947041
Anton Dietmaira* & Alexander Verla
pages 123-133

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Received: 19 Dec 2008
Accepted: 1 Apr 2009
Published online: 28 Jul 2009

Abstract
Today, energy efficiency in production systems has partially been achieved on the component
level, but methods are missing for the energy optimal operation of plants, machines and
components. We therefore, propose a novel generic method to model the energy consumption
behaviour of machines and plants based on a statistical discrete event formulation. It is lean,
integrative and scalable and can be used directly in planning processes to make predictions of
the energy consumption of different configurations in different scenarios based on any amount
of available information. Using the modelling framework, we introduce applications in real-time,
tactical and strategic decision making processes that make it possible to exploit the potential for
energy consumption minimisation of any given machine or production system while obeying
conflicting general conditions.

Keywords

manufacturing,

energy efficiency,

modelling and simulation,

planning

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DOI:
10.1080/0951192X.2015.1031703
Philipp Eberspchera*, Armin Lechlera & Alexander Verla
Publishing models and article dates explained

Received: 31 Mar 2014

Accepted: 20 Feb 2015

Published online: 23 Apr 2015

Abstract

With the focus of industrial manufacturing on energy efficiency, machine tools offer energysaving modes and the new controls have the potential to reach those or even switch off the
machine. The switching to these energy-saving states is most commonly executed after a
predefined time interval or just manually by the machine tool operator. To enable an automated
and energy-optimal switching sequence of energy-minimal operating states of machine tools, a
control-integrated consumption graph-based optimisation method is proposed. This uses energy
prediction through a consumption graph and calculates operating state trajectories using a
graph-based optimisation theory. These trajectories allow an energy-minimal spending of
unproductive times. To ensure a widespread application, an automated parameter optimisation
is proposed to adapt the consumption graph to the machine tool it is optimising automatically.
The saving potential of the approach is demonstrated by a usage scenario from an industrial
shop floor setup.

Keywords

energy optimisation,

energy-efficient control,

graph-based optimisation,

automated modelling

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