This monograph provides a field-proven approach to analyze industrial production with a cross-company scope as well as regarding all hierarchical system levels of manufacturing enterprises. The book exemplifies this approach in the context of aluminum die casting, and presents a set of measures which allow a 30 percent energy reduction along the value chain. The target audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Aluminium die casting and its environmental aspects.- Existing approaches.- Multi-level multi-scale framework for enhancing energy and resource efficiency in production.- Multi-level multi-scale framework for enhancing energy and resource efficiency in aluminium die casting.- Summary and Outlook.