Abstract
Scarcity of resources, structural change during the further development of renewable energy sources, and their corresponding costs, such as increasing resource costs or penalties due to dirty production, lead industrial firms to adapt ecological actions. In this regard, research on energy utilization in production planning has received increased attention in the last years, resulting in a large number of research articles so far. With the paper at hand, we review the literature on energy-oriented production planning. The aim of this study is to derive similar core issues and related properties along energy-oriented models within hierarchical production planning. For this, we carry out a systematic literature review and analyze and synthesize 375 research articles. We classify the underlying literature with a novel two-dimensional classification scheme and identify three key topics and five frequently found characteristics, which are presented in detail throughout this article. Based on these results, we state several potentials for further research.
Highlights
Gochi, María Pilar de la Cruz López, Aside from sustainable production in general, one major concern is the use of energy in industrial production
In the present work, we look at the following two research questions (RQ): RQ1: Is it possible to narrow down the existing articles on energy-oriented production planning to a small number of key topics that are addressed?
We analyzed and synthesized 375 research articles published between 1983 and 2021 that take into account energy consumption, load management, and energy supply orientation along four different planning levels
Summary
María Pilar de la Cruz López, Aside from sustainable production in general, one major concern is the use of energy in industrial production. Research differentiates between two ways of increasing energy efficiency within industrial production. One possibility lies in the investment of new energy-efficient production machines, as well as in the design of new production processes. The other way lies in energy-oriented production planning (EOPP). While the former approaches related to technology investments usually go along with high costs, production planning allows improvements regarding energy utilization in the short term and with little investment costs, making it especially interesting for practice and research (see [1,2,3,4]). A consideration of risk management associated with energy-oriented production planning can be found, for instance, in [5]
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