An approach for energy-oriented production control using energy flexibility

Due to rising energy costs and growing awareness for green production, many companies expand their energy self-supply by wind or solar energy. To use this self-supply efficiently, producing companies aim to synchronize their energy demand with a limited energy supply. This has to be reflected in the companies' production control strategies. This paper presents a concept for a short-term production control, which treats electric energy as a limited production capacity. The approach makes use of energy flexibility to align energy demand in production with energy supply while maintaining logistic goals. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.