Interdisciplinary Strategies for Simulation-Based Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Production Facilities

This paper presents an approach for interdisciplinary optimization of energy efficiency in production plants. Domain-specific areas of action are discussed as well as the integration into a dynamic co-simulation that helps predicting the impact and financial benefit of selected energy saving measures by comparing and quantifying different scenarios. This should help giving incentives and creating impulses for strategic investment decisions. In a comprehensive methodological approach, optimization potential of both the production process itself as well as the production infrastructure is combined. The technical implementation involves several simulation environments and a framework for synchronization and data exchange in terms of co-simulation. The paper concludes with a discussion of some exemplary simulation results.