An empirical approach to investigate the relationship between Overall Equipment Effectiveness and Energy consumptions: an application in the manufacturing field

In the last decades energy efficiency of production systems has become a key concern in several industry fields, due to the increased energy costs and the associated environmental impacts. Furthermore, the role of equipment efficiency has lately occupied a relevant place, due to the importance of equipment performances in an optimized system. The fundamental aspect is that the two dimensions are strictly related, and it is possible to better understand complex systems by deeply comprehending this connection. With these assumption, in this paper the authors want to investigate through the analysis of a real manufacturing process how the OEE-related loss have an impact on equipment energy consumptions.