Toyota Motor Energy Analysis and Modeling
Abstract
The automobile manufacturing industry in the U.S. uses over 800 trillion British Thermal
Units (Btus) of energy and spends about $3.6 billion on it each year. As a leading
automobile manufacturing corporation, our client Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing
North America, Inc. (Toyota) seeks opportunities to improve their accuracy in predicting
manufacture energy use. With a better understanding of future energy use, Toyota will
be able to identify energy efficiency opportunities and improve the overall budgeting
accuracy at corporate level. To accomplish this goal, this project uses five years
of historical energy consumption data to test existing energy models and identify
possible improvements that can be done on a process and plant level. The products
of this study include revised energy models for manufacture energy use and administrative
energy use for both electricity and total energy consumption. Toyota could use our
models as a reliable reference to predict future energy performance.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11876Citation
Liu, Yang; Sun, Rui; & Wang, Ziren (2016). Toyota Motor Energy Analysis and Modeling. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11876.Collections
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Yang Liu
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