Modeling of energy-sensitive manufacturing processes

Energy-saving manufacturing of products is an important feature for the success of today's producing enterprises. Beside the marketing point of view, energy-efficiency plays a key role due to the fact that the costs for purchasing materials and energy increases. The basis of economic manufacturing are manufacturing processes taking energy- and resource-efficiency into account. Influence factors are not restricted to process planning and the results of planning processes, but also consider the whole product life cycle and its impact on the manufacturing of products. In this article, a specification model for energy-sensitive manufacturing processes is introduced and a data model focusing on the manufacturing of powertrain components is presented. Furthermore, a component-based software reference architecture for the integrated consideration of the energy and resource consumption is proposed.