Optimizing and predicting the energy consumption of industrial manufacturing can increase its cost efficiency. The interaction of different aspects and components is necessary. An overarching framework is currently still missing, and establishing such is the central research approach in this paper. This paper provides an overview of the current demands on the manufacturing industry from the perspective of digitalization and sustainability. On the basis of the developed fundamentals and parameters, a superordinate framework is proposed that allows the modelling and simulation of energy-specific properties on several product and process levels. A detailed description of the individual methods concludes this work and demonstrates their application potential in an industrial context. As a result, this integrated conceptual framework offers the possibility of optimizing the production system, in relation to different energy flexibility criteria.

The conceptual design phase is a crucial phase for the system architects to evaluate physical architecture concepts. Our research area deals with the model-based system engineering collaborative approach named spatial architecture based on multiphysics and organization of systems for the three-dimensional architecture evaluation of concepts under electromagnetic (EM) constraints. This article focuses on a preliminary required task: the development of a SysML extension called the electromagnetic interactions layout extension (EMILE) in order to support the collaboration between the system architects and the disciplinary EM experts by integrating the EM modeling based on the geometry to formalize EM constraints in the system model. This extension includes the EM requirements definition, the EM coupling modes description, and the specification of the simulation configuration, thanks to a developed customized human–machine interaction. Finally, EMILE has then been illustrated by a case study for the EM constraints specification of an electric vehicle power train.

The conceptual design is a crucial phase for the System Architects to evaluate 3D architecture concepts of mechatronic systems mainly with regard to the ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC). Our research work deals with the combination of electromagnetic modeling and a topological approach to support the qualitative and quantitative ElectroMagnetic Interferences (EMI) evaluation process within the MBSE SAMOS approach as of the conceptual design. For a given interference, the analysis of topological models allows the qualitative identification of the existence of victims with their associated potential aggressors, based on the electrical schema of interacting components. Then, once the potential EMIs have been qualitatively identified, a quantitative evaluation can be performed based on the predefined electromagnetic and geometrical requirements, and on the analysis of the identified physical coupling law. Finally, this approach has been applied to the alien crosstalk occurring in an electrical vehicle powertrain, with a quantitative evaluation based on the two following methods: an analytical approach and Kron's approach.