Operational methods for minimization of energy consumption of manufacturing equipment

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2007-05
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Mouzon, Gilles C.
Yildirim, Mehmet Bayram
Twomey, Janet M.
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This paper develops operational methods for the minimization of the energy consumption of manufacturing equipment. It is observed that there can be a significant amount of energy savings when non-bottleneck (i.e. underutilized) machines/equipment are turned off when they will be idle for a certain amount of time. Using this fact, several dispatching rules are proposed. A detailed performance analysis indicates that the proposed dispatching rules are effective in decreasing the energy consumption of especially underutilized manufacturing equipment. In addition, a multi-objective mathematical programming model is proposed to minimize the energy consumption and total completion time. Using this approach, a production manager will have a set of non-dominated solutions (i.e. the set of efficient solutions) which he/she can use to determine the most efficient production sequence which will minimize the total energy consumption while optimizing the total completion time.

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This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published inInternational Journal of Production Research, Vol. 45, Nos. 18–19, 15 September–1 October 2007. WSU users can access the definitive version of this article at: http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=7751&recCount=30&recPointer=1&bibId=1327888
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