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2 Simulation-Based Optimization
Summarizing, various software solutions that include optimization packages
interfaced with simulation software are available on the market. As companies
need to continuously improve their processes in order to remain competitively
on the market, the use of simulation software in combination with integrated
optimization possibilities represents a tool to model, assess and enhance dynamic production processes in manufacturing. The simulation-based optimization
therefore seems to be a possible solution to model and optimize the energy consumption in the production systems and to constitute a decisional support system
for production planning and control in order to achieve an optimum use energy
in production processes.