Improving Energy Efficiency for the Vehicle Assembly Industry: A Discrete Event Simulation Approach

International Engineering Research and Innovation Symposium

Oumer, Abduaziz^1 ; Atnaw, Samson Mekbib^2 ; Cheng, Jack Kie^1 ; Singh, Lakveer^2

Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang, Tun Razak Highway, Pahang, Kuantan

26300, Malaysia^1

Faculty of Engineering Technology, University Malaysia Pahang, Tun Razak Highway, Pahang, Kuantan

26300, Malaysia^2

关键词: Assembling process;    Automotive assembly lines;    Detailed modeling;    Efficiency models;    Electricity-consumption;    Performance measurements;    Reducing co2 emissions;    Sources of energy;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/160/1/012069/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/160/1/012069

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper presented a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model for investigating and improving energy efficiency in vehicle assembly line. The car manufacturing industry is one of the highest energy consuming industries. Using Rockwell Arena DES package; a detailed model was constructed for an actual vehicle assembly plant. The sources of energy considered in this research are electricity and fuel; which are the two main types of energy sources used in a typical vehicle assembly plant. The model depicts the performance measurement for process- specific energy measures of painting, welding, and assembling processes. Sound energy efficiency model within this industry has two-fold advantage: reducing CO2emission and cost reduction associated with fuel and electricity consumption. The paper starts with an overview of challenges in energy consumption within the facilities of automotive assembly line and highlights the parameters for energy efficiency. The results of the simulation model indicated improvements for energy saving objectives and reduced costs.