DocumentCode :
552807
Title :
Resource efficiency: Visualizing energy consumption to optimize tool design
Author :
Schuh, Günther ; Potente, Till ; Heimes, Heiner
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Machine Tools & Production Eng., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
fYear :
2011
fDate :
July 31 2011-Aug. 4 2011
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
In many areas of engineering development, resource efficiency is an important quality characteristic. Customers pay more attention to energy consumption caused by the production of the desired products. Products that require a lot of energy in the production are referred as “critical” by politics and society. Especially the field of tool and die industry - despite the implementation of initial measures to increase resource efficiency - has immense potential. Significant opportunities for improvement can be achieved by visualizing the energy consumption of tools and their components. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between the energy required to produce tools and the energy consumption of used tools has great potential. Taking account of resource efficiency, the overall optimum is desired. Rising electricity prices and the increased sensitivity on this part of industry, society and politics allow the economic realization of these improvements. The “Innovation Alliance Car Body Green Technologies” (InnoCaT) is one out of ten innovative alliances that are financed by the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the focus of InnoCaT is the resource efficiency of tools. One main research objective - based on the dependencies of the energy consumption in the individual life cycle phases - is to develop a model which optimizes the design of a tool. The aim is to minimize the energy consumption over all life cycle phases. In this paper the latest research findings of InnoCaT are presented and needs for further research are identified.
Keywords :
design for environment; energy consumption; machine tools; machinery production industries; Innovation Alliance Car Body Green Technologies; energy consumption visualization; engineering development; quality characteristic; resource efficiency; tool and die industry; tool design optimization; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Industries; Manufacturing; Materials; Production; Technological innovation;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Technology Management in the Energy Smart World (PICMET), 2011 Proceedings of PICMET '11:
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1552-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-890843-24-3
Type :
conf
Filename :
6017858
Link To Document :
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