Efficient energy performance indicators for different level of production organizations in manufacturing companies

Abstract

Demands for lower CO2 emissions due to the climate change and the rising of energy prices force manufacturing companies to deal with the energy issue. Energy management, where one of the tasks is energy efficiency evaluation, can help the companies to overcome the issue. This paper presents holistic metric to evaluate the energy efficiency in manufacturing companies, which considers the different organization level of production, such as machine or equipment level, production line level, and factory level. As the size of the scope and the number of observed factors vary, the metric provide flexible criteria to select relevant variables. The developed metric could be used to simulate and to compare energy efficiency of different production facilities, lines, and factories in a single company. The metric is an instrument to recognize how energy (in) efficient is a production system, so that adjustments may be made in the planning and management to achieve the energy savings.