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An Energy Efficiency Improvement Method for Manufacturing Process Based on ECRSR
Haiming Sun1,3, Quande Dong2,*, Cuixia Zhang2, Jianqing Chen3,4
1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan, 442002, China
2 School of Information Engineering, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 234000, China
3 School of Mechanical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 30009, China
4 School of Engineering, Huzhou University, Huzhou, 313000, China
* Corresponding Author: Quande Dong. Email:
Energy Engineering 2020, 117(3), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.32604/EE.2020.010706
Received 22 March 2020; Accepted 09 June 2020; Issue published 10 July 2020
Abstract
The improvement of energy efficiency is considered as one of the keys
to the sustainable development of manufacturing enterprises. This paper proposes
an energy efficiency improvement method for the manufacturing process. Based
on the analysis of the characteristics of energy consumption in the manufacturing
process, a necessary energy consumption model, an assistant energy consumption
model and an ineffective energy consumption model are constructed for identifying the energy consumption attributes of the manufacturing process. Then, the
relationship model of energy consumption is built, and the energy efficiency
improvement method for the manufacturing process is proposed based on ECRSR
(Elimination, Combination, Rearrangement, Simplification and Recovery).
Finally, an injection molding machine in a workshop is studied as a case. The
results show that the average hourly power-saving rate of a single machine is
37.3%, and the average power-saving rate per piece is 30.9%. This paper
provides a feasible method for improving energy efficiency of the manufacturing process from the perspective of IE (Industrial Engineering), and provides
both theoretical and methodological support for the sustainable development
of the manufacturing industry.
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Sun, H., Dong, Q., Zhang, C., Chen, J. (2020). An Energy Efficiency Improvement Method for Manufacturing Process Based on ECRSR.
Energy Engineering, 117(3), 153–164. https://doi.org/10.32604/EE.2020.010706
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