Energy consumption is of great interest to manufacturing companies. Beyond considering individual processes and machines, the perspective on process chains and

Over the last several years, manufacturers have expressed increasing interest in reducing their energy consumption and have begun to search for opportunities to

Industrial energy efficiency is one of the most important means of reducing the threat of increased global warming. Research however states that despite the exi

This book provides energy efficiency quantitative analysis and optimal methods for discrete manufacturing systems from the perspective of global optimization. I

This Special Issue addresses the important issue of the energy efficiency of both manufacturing processes and systems. Manufacturing is responsible for one-thir