Open AccessEnergy Efficiency Assessment in Production Line: An Approach towards Sustainable Manufacturing
Author(s) -
Chairul Saleh,
Redi Prasetiyo,
Andrie Pasca Hendradewa,
Azmi Hassan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/530/1/012004
Subject(s) - energy consumption , efficient energy use , production (economics) , work (physics) , production line , energy (signal processing) , environmental economics , schedule , energy accounting , consumption (sociology) , factory (object oriented programming) , energy engineering , computer science , discrete manufacturing , reduction (mathematics) , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , microeconomics , mathematics , social science , statistics , programming language , sociology , electrical engineering , operating system , geometry
Global demands of energy which causes a quick depletion of the natural energy reserves become a critical concern. Industrial sector is concerned to be the largest energy consumer compared to other sectors. Thus, an energy efficiency improvement tends to be a proper solution in addressing this problem. This work aims to analyse a prospect energy efficiency improvement within a production line. A discrete-event simulation (DES) was used to investigate the energy saving potential and a case study was conducted in a crumb rubber company. Three parameters were taken into consideration to calculate the energy consumption, i.e. processing time, working shift schedule, and machine states. An initial model which represents an actual condition of the manufacturing production line was developed. From the analysis of the initial model result, a recommendation scenario was built. It was shown that a reduction of 8.22% in the energy consumption is achievable by implementing the suggested scenario.