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.