TY - GEN
T1 - A case study analysis of energy savings achieved through behavioural change and social feedback on manufacturing machines
AU - Cosgrove, John
AU - Doyle, Frank
AU - van den Broek, Bart
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Energy consumption in industry, particularly in manufacturing SMEs, continues to be inefficient with identifiable waste electrical consumption in machines and associated technical services. Holistic approaches to energy management that engage both the owners and the operators of a process are needed to drive progress. This research shows that there is value in energy and resource optimisation and productivity to be gained in a manufacturing company through engaging with machine operators, providing live performance feedback and authorising local control of machine operations. This research investigated visible feedback mechanisms, including factual and social displays, in a limited industrial experiment in a manufacturing SME to demonstrate potential energy savings from changes in practice. Factual feedback on a set of milling machines is shown to provide savings of 2.9% of total energy consumption, and social feedback based on machine threshold levels is shown to deliver savings of 5.1% of total energy consumption. An additional non-energy benefit (NEB) of a 7.9% improvement in productivity was also observed. The research highlights the importance of identifying auxiliary (non-value added) energy use within production, such as idle energy consumption in machines, as an area with potential for significant reductions through low-cost changes in operational behaviour and procedures.
AB - Energy consumption in industry, particularly in manufacturing SMEs, continues to be inefficient with identifiable waste electrical consumption in machines and associated technical services. Holistic approaches to energy management that engage both the owners and the operators of a process are needed to drive progress. This research shows that there is value in energy and resource optimisation and productivity to be gained in a manufacturing company through engaging with machine operators, providing live performance feedback and authorising local control of machine operations. This research investigated visible feedback mechanisms, including factual and social displays, in a limited industrial experiment in a manufacturing SME to demonstrate potential energy savings from changes in practice. Factual feedback on a set of milling machines is shown to provide savings of 2.9% of total energy consumption, and social feedback based on machine threshold levels is shown to deliver savings of 5.1% of total energy consumption. An additional non-energy benefit (NEB) of a 7.9% improvement in productivity was also observed. The research highlights the importance of identifying auxiliary (non-value added) energy use within production, such as idle energy consumption in machines, as an area with potential for significant reductions through low-cost changes in operational behaviour and procedures.
KW - Auxiliary energy reduction
KW - Industrial energy efficiency
KW - Machine operators
KW - Manufacturing machines
KW - Social feedback
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-9271-9_27
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-9271-9_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069472033
SN - 9789811392702
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 323
EP - 337
BT - Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2019 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing KES-SDM 19
A2 - Ball, Peter
A2 - Huaccho Huatuco, Luisa
A2 - Howlett, Robert J.
A2 - Setchi, Rossi
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 6th KES International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, KES-SDM 2019
Y2 - 4 June 2019 through 5 June 2019
ER -