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5.6.1 Description of the Fictional Production Scenario . . . . . . . 126
5.6.2 Simulation Model Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
5.6.3 Adaptions of the Simulation Model in Preparation
for the Simulation-based Optimization of Energy
Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
5.6.4 Depiction of the Optimization Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
5.6.5 Evaluation of the Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
5.6.6 Conclusions for the Practical Application
of the Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
6 Experimental Validation of the Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.1 Presentation of the Practical Area of Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.1.1 Presentation of the Data Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.1.2 Data Acquisition, Processing, and Validation . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.2 Simulation Model Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.3 Optimization Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
6.3.1 Optimization Parameter Adaptations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
6.3.2 Simulation-based Optimization using the 1-Min
Resolution Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
6.3.3 Simulation-based Optimization using the 1-sec
Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
6.3.4 Examination of the Necessity of Combined
Simulation in Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
6.3.5 Summary and Evaluation of Simulation-based
Optimization Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
6.3.6 Financial Evaluation of the Increase in Energy
Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
6.4 Recommendations for Action for Bosch Derived
from the Simulation-based Optimization Methodology . . . . . . . . . 190
6.5 Evaluation of the Practical Applicability
of the Simulation-based Optimization Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7 Summary and Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
7.1 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
7.2 Critical Appraisal of the Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
7.3 Outlook and Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207