TY - JOUR A1 - Rackow, Tobias A1 - Kohl, Johannes A1 - Canzaniello, Angelo A1 - Schuderer, Peter A1 - Franke, Jörg T1 - Energy Flexible Production: Saving Electricity Expenditures by Adjusting the Production Plan JF - Procedia CIRP N2 - The energy turnaround in Germany increases the share of renewable energies. Since the amount of renewable energy supply is immanently subject of variation, the electricity price at the European Energy Exchange EEX is highly volatile. If companies would purchase the electricity directly at the EEX instead of from a wholesale power supplier along with price fixing, companies would benefit from increasing production in times with low electricity costs and reducing production in high-cost times. This paper shows, that influencing respectively shifting the time of electricity consumption –e.g. by adjustment of process parameter, shift period, order of jobs or machine utilization, by pausing of processes or delaying of job starts – can theoretically reduce electricity expenditures. The measures are being explained and discussed, followed by a description of company in-house and external requirements for the energy flexible production. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2014.07.179 KW - factory control KW - energy flexibility KW - flexible production KW - energy management KW - energy expenditures Y1 - 2015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2014.07.179 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-23609 SN - 2212-8271 N1 - Part of special issue: "12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing – Emerging Potentials" VL - 2015 IS - 26 SP - 235 EP - 240 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -