Energy Efficiency in Production Engineering

Course content

Intended learning outcome:

The students...

• explain the planning, design and development of sustainability-oriented production systems in different contexts.
• assess different strategies (e.g. efficiency strategy) and principles (e.g. avoidance principle) of sustainable development in defined use cases on a laboratory scale.
• evaluate existing production systems in economic, ecological and social dimensions.
• are able to illustrate the results of various efficiency strategies to non-experts and to apply relevant assumptions, restrictions and framework conditions correctly.
• design their own research questions within the team project, evaluate experiments and derive a presentation of the results of the research.
• organize themselves in a team project and gain experience in relevant soft skills such as teamwork, communication and presentation skills.
• analyze sustainability-oriented production systems within a given topic.
• are able to select relevant fields of action and measures for sustainable production.

Module content:

• Background and methods for the holistic planning, design and development of sustainable production systems
• Definition of the term and origin of sustainability in production
• Technologies and procedures for industrial data acquisition
• Energetic evaluation of production processes on the basis of various key figures
• Data analysis of production processes using Sankey diagrams in theory and practice
• Analysis of production processes based on an (energy) value stream analysis
• Analysis of the different levels of consideration of factories (production processes, technical building equipment, building envelope) and relevant material, energy and information flows
• Guest lectures from industry on relevant topics of sustainable production systems
• Gaining knowledge about energy flexibility in production
• Practice-oriented application of various methods to increase energy efficiency in the IWF's learning factory