Abstract
Energy management is a crucial aspect to
global sustainability. Multinational Manufacturing
Corporations’ (MMC’s) utilise a large amount of energy,
making energy optimisation a priority. The ability to evaluate
MMC’s total energy utilisation effectively and efficiently is a
challenge. This research focuses on holistically modelling the
business energy systems of MMC’s by adopting a business
process centric approach. MMC’s conduct business based on
global or regional business processes depending on the
function, global/regional functional enablement. The agile
energy model proposed in this research integrates key
knowledge areas of energy assessment, business management,
business processes and system engineering, to deliver a
comprehensive simulation toolset for energy quantification,
evaluation and optimisation.