A unit Product Energy mapping framework

Combining energy management and value stream mapping In today's industrial landscape, manufacturing plays a central role in driving economic growth. However, this crucial sector is also a major contributor to global energy consumption and greenhouse gases (CO2eq) emission. Energy management focuses on the systematic use of management and technology to improve energy performance in a selected site, such as a building, facility, or an entire organization. It requires that energy procurement, energy efficiency and renewable energy y be integrated proactive and incorporated in order for it to be fully effective. Value Stream Mapping (VSM), a widely used tool of Lean Manufacturing, is a type of symbolic model that graphically enables the end user to observe the material and information flow as a product or service travels through a value chain. The model represents the flow of resources such as materials, information and personnel along with their interactions, beginning with a sales order right through to delivery of the product or service to the customer. It specifies activities and cycle times and also identifies value-added and non-value added activities in the process. It allows the visualization of all the manufacturing system, rather than just the equipment. The use of VSM and energy management, provides strategies and techniques to improve energy and environmental performance in tandem with achieving leans goals such as quality, reduced waste and improved customer responsiveness. Concept of value” and the VSM tool as a means of determining energy consumption in a current state. In particular, the work focuses on determining energy characteristics of the process. This model provides a simple, highly visual model that allows for the assessment of sustainability indicators in manufacturing. The main outcomes are goal definition, identification for sustainability indicators and modelling of current and future state process maps.