Comprehensive Improvement of Industrial Energy Efficiency: Pilot Case in a European Rolling Stock Factory

Abstract

Energy and resource efficiency requires more suitable approaches to be consistently implemented in industry. Factories are more complex systems than residential or commercial buildings; in industrial domain, improvements for energy efficiency require measures that are difficult to be identified and that vary from building to manufacturing processes fields. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to systematically address industrial energy efficiency improvement. The approach has been developed and tested at a European rolling stock manufacturer. Insights from the pilot case presented confirm that this holistic view helps properly address energy efficiency in industrial domain. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014.