The automotive industry is facing on-going challenges to improve the sustainability of its
manufacturing processes and vehicle emissions due to economic, environmental …

The social context in relation to energy policies and advances in more energy efficient
technologies is changing constantly, thus driving a need for change in the manufacturing …

Improvement of coal consumption efficiency is very important both for China in solving its
problems of energy security and environmental pollution and for the world in addressing the …

Nowadays, industrial enterprises are facing up to new challenges to well optimize their
performances, with regards not only to conventional performances (eg reliability or …

This paper analyzes the effect of certain factors on electricity consumption in Spain at a
sectoral level. An electricity consumption function has been estimated by using panel data …

Abstract The European Union has recently presented a strategic long-term vision for a
climate-neutral economy by 2050, considering that climate change is a serious concern for …

This study analyzes the electric and fuel energy efficiency for five different metal-based
durable manufacturing industries in the United States over the time period 1987–2012, at …

In this paper we merge a well-cited survey of firm management practices into confidential
plant level US Census manufacturing data to examine whether generic, ie non-energy …

Measuring and targeting energy performances of manufacturing plants and their subsystems
is the first, critical step to understand their energy behavior, to identify energy management …

China is currently in a stage of high-quality economic development, but the high energy
consumption and high pollution production methods of the construction industry are no …