Simulation-based Approach for Eco-optimized Production Control Systems

Ecological factors are increasingly affecting the business practice of manufacturing companies. Recent guidelines and standards as well as a growing consumer-side demand for sustainable production influence the planning and control of production systems. We present an approach that includes ecological indicators in a multi-criteria production control under given constraints, e. g. cost and flow rate. A conventional approach that uses a single optimization function for ecological indicators is hardly possible due to the number of machines and upcoming data. Our approach includes more than one level of optimization so that the inclusion of multiple ecological indicators and constraints is possible.