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.
Through the lab, the students...
- Become more confident with the topic of energy flexibility introduced in the lecture.
- Are able to use energy measuring devices independently.
- Understand the influence of volatile renewable energies and of environmental factors on production within a case study.
- Identify energy flexibilization potentials in production within a real example in the BatteryLab Factory.
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 and flexibility in the IWF's learning factory
- Evaluation of measures to increase energy flexibility through e.g. load profile analysis and energy portfolio