Energy efficiency and cost controlling - implications for powertrain manufacturing

Controlling of energy efficiency and energy costs is a highly relevant, but also challenging issue for manufacturers of powertrain components. However, there barely exist theoretical and practical concepts in this field. To reduce this gap, the paper first introduces a controlling approach containing a framework in terms of a nonagon, a controlling cycle, and controlling guidelines. Because there is a considerable lack of methods enabling systematic energy efficiency and energy cost controlling, secondly, a pool of methods is recommended against the background of powertrain components’ manufacturing: instruments for the determination and analysis of energy consumption, energy cost accounting as well as energy-oriented approaches of life cycle costing, performance measurement and target costing