MODELLING ENERGY IN BUILDINGS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: THE IMPACT OF MODEL GRANULARITY AND QUALITY ON OUTPUT

摘要

The design, improvement and operation of production and facilities are conducted in isolation. Engineers in each discipline typically work independently with their own objectives, approaches and software support systems. There are few available tools to link these areas together, hence, there is little or no understanding of how such combined factory analysis should be conducted to assess and reduce factory resource consumption. This paper reports on experimentation of an integrated production system and building model. The case data was drawn from a UK production system and experiments were conducted on the impact of model data input on model output. The results show the relationship between reducing data quality and detail on the ability to discern the system performance from the results generated.