Over the last several years, manufacturers have expressed increasing interest in reducing their energy consumption and have begun to search for opportunities to

This book provides energy efficiency quantitative analysis and optimal methods for discrete manufacturing systems from the perspective of global optimization. I

Industrial energy efficiency is one of the most important means of reducing the threat of increased global warming. Research however states that despite the exi

Overviews manufacturing systems from the ground up, following the same concept as in the first edition. Delves into the fundamental building blocks of manufactu

This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation”. The