Over the last several years, manufacturers have expressed increasing interest in
reducing their energy consumption and have begun to search for opportunities to
reduce their energy usage. In this book, the authors explore a variety of
opportunities to reduce the energy footprint of manufacturing. These
opportunities cover the entire spatial scale of the manufacturing enterprise:
from unit process-oriented approaches to enterprise-level strategies. Each
chapter examines some aspect of this spatial scale, and discusses and describes
the opportunities that exist at that level. Case studies demonstrate how the
opportunity may be acted on with practical guidance on how to respond to these
opportunities.