Title: Energy-sensitive control strategies for decoupled production systems

Authors: Matthias Putz; Andreas Schlegel; Johannes Stoldt; Enrico Franz; Tino Langer

Addresses: Division Production Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Chemnitz, Germany ' Division Production Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Chemnitz, Germany ' Division Production Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Chemnitz, Germany ' Division Production Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Chemnitz, Germany ' Division Production Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Chemnitz, Germany

Abstract: Rising demand for energy caused by emerging economies, decreasing oil stocks, and the intended nuclear phase-out in some industrial countries has led to new problems concerning sufficient and on time energy supply. Since availability of energy has a dramatic influence on production, energy has to be considered a process prerequisite instead of a production-related overhead topic, as usually done. Prospective considerations in MES and ERP systems will need to treat energy as a limited resource just like machine capacity and time. Hence, both products and processes will compete for energy. This paper discusses selected production control tasks, methods, and strategies for discrete part manufacturing. It aims at identifying the extent to which energy features can be implemented next to established logistic goals. Based on first research activities, new approaches were derived in order to develop tools for an energy-sensitive production control focusing on limited capacity of production resources.

Keywords: production control; energy efficiency; manufacturing execution systems; MES; control strategies; decoupled production systems; sustainable manufacturing; energy supply; discrete parts manufacturing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2014.065661

International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing, 2014 Vol.3 No.3, pp.250 - 268

Published online: 15 Nov 2014 *

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