Concept for extending the Module Type Package with energy management functionalities

The introduction of an energy management system allows companies to monitor their own energy consumption and to improve the energy efficiency of their production. The use of modular production provides companies the flexibility to adapt their production to the demands of the market. In this paper, these two concepts are combined for the first time, thus allowing energy management to be deployed in modular production. In order to achieve this, the Module Type Package (MTP) as the automation-related module description is extended by the aspect of energy management functionalities. This aspect provides the possibility to perform energy-specific measurements in the module's devices as well as to influence the module's energy demand by load management commands.