Energy aware manufacturing environments

Up to now, production systems only concern was to minimize production costs or to optimize the utilization of production resources. But with the increasing energy prices and the growing concern over the environmental impact of production systems (industrial systems consume a quarter of all energy), efficient use of energy in manufacturing environment cannot be ignored any longer. MANUbuilding concept brings together the manufacturing systems requirements with the building automaton concerns over the efficient energy use and develops the local decision making based on dynamically expanding clusters to optimize the energy consumption in a factory.