Communication of energy data in modular production

Abstract

Due to the climate and energy crisis, industrial companies are forced to take actions for a more energy-efficient production. As more modular plants are expected in the market in the future, energy-efficient actions will also have to apply to modular production. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop solutions that enable energy management to be operated with a modular production. At the same time, these solutions should not have a negative impact on the characteristics of a modular production (e. g., flexibility). This paper shows how energy data of a modular production can be provided in aggregated form. In particular, attention is given to the description of the energy data since energy data can only become valuable energy information if the energy data is described in a semantically uniform way.