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01.05.2010 - 30.04.2013
Research funding project
The increase of productivity was for decades the ultimate goal of the industrial engineering sector. Based on the Kyoto Protocol of the year 1997, the EU Directive 2006/32/EC calls for sustainable improvements in energy efficiency in manufacturing. Because of the additional demands, such as public pressure to minimize CO2 emissions and rising energy costs, energy efficiency has become an increasingly important topic in the manufacturing industry. Some optimization approaches (e.g. use of sustainable materials, reduction of energy consumption, minimization of manufacturing costs, shortening the supply chain, reduction of resources, decrease of machine and tool wear or design of production facilities) were the basis of many research projects and are now state of the art in many productions in the field of cutting. The project builds on these approaches and creates an unique interdisciplinary field of research through the wide range knowledge of participating Departments at the Vienna University of Technology and the concentration of industry partners from different sectors (such as power engineering, machine tools, automation, production engineering, ect.). The detailed examination and cross linking of the various results in order to achieve synergic effects are crucial for this holistic approach. The aim is to generate energy-efficient optimization of production facilities and halls. The project consists of five main phases (analysis, modeling, coupled modeling, optimization and implementation), which are defined in the work packages and deal with the machining industry. Therefore the four levels of industry (process, machine, production and workshop) are passed through each of the project phases. The analysis of the partners from industry (actual state) is the basis for modeling in different levels through each of the suitable simulation applications. The models will be assembled in the third phase and the optimization options demonstrated (target state). Finally, an integrated simulation of two production halls belonging to the industrial partners and containing all the obtained data will be carried out. As the final result, a Masterplan-Blueprint of an optimized production-hall model will be compiled as a systemic representation of all three areas (energy, workshop, production). The implementation is planned for the industry partners as well as the experimental field of the Institute for Production Engineering and Laser Technology. In this project the analysis and modeling of micro and macro levels is made from plants. The engendered output values of one level are the input values of the higher level. The integrated simulation will subsequently be used as a tool for manufacturing companies. Thus the application is developed in partnership with members of the industry, however enterprises which have not participated in the project are able to utilize the optimization method. The results of this project are partially integrated into the project itself. Since the data is collected for the analysis of real production units. The optimization happens along the value-added chain of the project partners and is therefore directly applicable to the company.

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Project leader

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Institute

Contract/collaboration

  • HOERBIGER Ventilwerke GmbH & Co. KG

Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Research focus

  • Beyond TUW-research focus: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
IndustriebauIndustrial Building
EnergieEnergy
Simulationsimulation
ProduktionProduction

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