Towards Energy Management in Production Planning Software Based on Energy Consumption as a Planning Resource

Electrical energy consumption of production facilities is not properly included in the production planning at present. Such a possibility offers optimization potential for companies to save energy and also contributes to balancing energy demand and supply. This paper presents results of a project dealing with the aim to provide means to set energy demands with other resources such as personnel available as planning factor in production planning software. We follow the approach to plan the future energy consumption of the production for each machine and introduce new key performance indicators considering the energy aspect as well as energy management strategies based on costs or consumption.