With increasing governmental pressures to reduce energy consumption, manufacturing
companies are faced with the challenge of reducing energy consumption whilst maintaining …

Energy efficiency has long been considered a key component of an industrial company's
competitive repertoire. However, despite the potential benefits of adopting so-called energy …

In this paper, a manufacturing work cell utilizing gantries to move between machines for
loading and unloading materials/parts is considered. The production performance of the …

The idle statuses of machines in a manufacturing system consume large quantity energy but
with non-value added activities. The real time control strategy that reduces the idle period …

In a manufacturing system, the idle status of machine consuming huge amounts of energy
cannot bring any added value. How to reduce the energy waste of idle period through the …

In modern manufacturing systems, maintenance operations are the key to improve
machines' reliability and availability, and hence to improve system productivity and quality …

Nowadays, production systems seek to integrate production and maintenance activities. An
effective maintenance plan can improve maintenance stability and system performance …

The industrial sector consumes 55% of the world's energy consumption [1]. Following
manufacturing processes, the HVAC system is the second largest energy consumer in …

Accurate performance diagnostics and effective improvement methods are critical to
manufacturing operation and management. Depending on the highly developed robotics …