Monitoring of energy flows in the production machines

Abstract

The article deals with the development of software tools supporting visualization in order to assess the workload of electrical appliances installed in machine-tools. This enables us a considerably easier orientation and the control of energy consumption. The first part of the article is concerned with the application created for simulation of energy flows in the machine-tool with the help of advanced post-processing. That allows software to select to review only interesting data using peaks identifying algorithm. The second part deals with Sankey diagrams visualizations improvements. The tool developed for visualization was applied to the machine FUEQ 125 Efektiv company TOS Kuřim in cooperation with the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VCSVTT - Research Centre for Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.