Sustainable Manufacturing Systems: An Energy Perspective

As the energy landscape rapidly changes, this book provides answers to the questions energy customers, managers, decision makers, and researchers have concerning sustainable manufacturing. The authors present manufacturing modeling methods and energy efficiency evaluation and improvement methods for different manufacturing systems. They also describe manufacturing modeling methods and energy efficiency evaluation and improvement methods for different manufacturing systems. Capturing the momentum of recent critical developments in smart grid applications, this book helps industry professionals embrace the opportunities for advanced energy management by providing a comprehensive and systematic theoretical foundation for novel manufacturing system modeling, analysis and control. In the conclusion, the main contributions of this book are summarized, and some insights and discusses into future research issues related to sustainable manufacturing systems are provided.