Energy Efficient Manufacturing Scheduling: A Systematic Literature Review

TL;DR

This paper systematically reviews recent research on energy-efficient manufacturing scheduling, highlighting methodologies, classifications, and open challenges to promote sustainable and cost-effective production practices.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive framework and classification of energy-efficient scheduling research, summarizing methodologies and identifying open research challenges.

Findings

Over 500 papers reviewed in the last decade

Classification of scheduling problems and methodologies

Identification of key open research challenges

Abstract

The social context in relation to energy policies, energy supply, and sustainability concerns as well as advances in more energy-efficient technologies is driving a need for a change in the manufacturing sector. The main purpose of this work is to provide a research framework for energy-efficient scheduling (EES) which is a very active research area with more than 500 papers published in the last 10 years. The reason for this interest is mostly due to the economic and environmental impact of considering energy in production scheduling. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of recent papers in this area, provide a classification of the problems studied, and present an overview of the main aspects and methodologies considered as well as open research challenges.