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1 Introduction
Due to the interdisciplinarity of the research topic and for the sake of completeness, a classification of the work in the field of business administration is
made in addition to the classification in the field of Information Systems. Business administration is, according to the new literature, divided into the areas
of production management, finance, marketing, business management, corporate
accounting, etc. The focus of the production economy is the process of object
transformation, i.e., the qualitative, quantitative, spatial or temporal change of
objects, for the purpose of service provision [DS2010, p. 3]. While spatial and
temporal changes are summarized as logistics processes, the production of a
company deals with qualitative changes of the input variables which aim at a
value increase. The main task of the production economy can thus be summarized in the business analysis of production systems. Of particular importance
for the analysis of production systems is the close relationship with the neighboring disciplines, which are engineering, computer science, OR and some others.
Production systems usually have a large number of technical design parameters
that are examined with the aid of the relevant engineering sciences (mechanical
engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering). The collection, processing and provision of decision-relevant information takes place with the aid of
methods from computer science [DS2010, p. 6].
The topic of the simulation-based optimization of energy efficiency in production thus lies at the interface of different research areas, which are brought
together in this book to find practical solutions.
1 Introduction
Due to the interdisciplinarity of the research topic and for the sake of completeness, a classification of the work in the field of business administration is
made in addition to the classification in the field of Information Systems. Business administration is, according to the new literature, divided into the areas
of production management, finance, marketing, business management, corporate
accounting, etc. The focus of the production economy is the process of object
transformation, i.e., the qualitative, quantitative, spatial or temporal change of
objects, for the purpose of service provision [DS2010, p. 3]. While spatial and
temporal changes are summarized as logistics processes, the production of a
company deals with qualitative changes of the input variables which aim at a
value increase. The main task of the production economy can thus be summarized in the business analysis of production systems. Of particular importance
for the analysis of production systems is the close relationship with the neighboring disciplines, which are engineering, computer science, OR and some others.
Production systems usually have a large number of technical design parameters
that are examined with the aid of the relevant engineering sciences (mechanical
engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering). The collection, processing and provision of decision-relevant information takes place with the aid of
methods from computer science [DS2010, p. 6].
The topic of the simulation-based optimization of energy efficiency in production thus lies at the interface of different research areas, which are brought
together in this book to find practical solutions.