Procedure of Modular Green Factory Planning to Enhance Collaboration and Decision Making

Planning resource and energy efficient factories is a challenge for present approaches because of the additional knowledge required and because of the high variety of energy efficient measures theoretically available; modularity as promising solution allows case-adaptability and focusing most relevant energy drivers during planning. Planning requires interdisciplinary collaboration and smooth decision making in these modules because different factory elements interact and information needs to be processed. This paper describes the composition and interconnection of Green Factory Planning modules focusing the assignment to planning experts and the management procedure to have higher impact on green performance. A use case shows how planning modules can help identify relevant information and key team members to let them collaboratively find solutions.