Abstract

This paper describes the state of the art in integrating energy considerations into the simulation of production and logistic processes. It presents different approaches to integrating energy analysis into simulation. Furthermore, we discuss a solution developed within the research project SimEnergy, a use case for application and the results of the project. We explain how the developed solution was improved after the project had shown that it delivers comparable results to the original approach. We use the obtained results to develop a simplified model in Plant Simulation and compare the results to the coupled simulation solution. Furthermore, we analyze the impact of the temperatures chosen for restarting the machines in the output of the production line. A second use case demonstrates the differences between a coupled model and a simulation in Plant Simulation, if the timing of a temperature-based failure is important for the simulation results. We conclude with a presentation of prospects for further research.