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Real-Time Analysis And Control Of Serial Production Lines For Energy Efficient Manufacturing, Guorong Chen

Theses and Dissertations

Productivity analysis, operation control and energy consumption reduction

have been the central topics in manufacturing research and practice. They are closely related to each other. Control of production operations is considered as one of the most economical methods to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing systems, while system performance analysis serves as the base of production control. On the other hand, effective operation control can result to energy efficiency in manufacturing.

Steady state analysis has been investigated extensively; however, transient analysis remained largely unexplored. Our research focuses on system modeling, performance analysis, and real-time operation control of serial production lines with …