Innovative planning synergies between manufacturing processes and microgrids

Abstract

Industrial equipment is evolving towards data gathering and communication, following the Internet of things approach. During last years, different management systems and related standards have been developed, in order to raise the performance of manufacturing processes. But a complete optimization of a manufacturing process requires a holistic approach, and adopting microgrid architectures can actually empower the optimization of a manufacturing process. In this paper, synergies about microgrids and manufacturing processes planning will be pointed out. Thus, a suitable approach to MG planning for manufacturing companies from a Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) point of view is described.