Special Talk

"Automation" from the Perspective of an Energy Management System

Professor Yoshiharu AMANO

Waseda University, Japan

Date & Time: Sep. 7, Wed. 16:45-17:45(JST)　Venue: TBD

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AbstractEnergy management in industrial manufacturing/production system is essential for pursuing to smart manufacturing. It is crucial not only to minimize energy consumption of the system but also to make our existing system to the next generation system for mitigating greenhouse effect gas emission in our society. The management system shall instruct the optimized operation strategy. However, lager the number of entities, the harder to solve in real-time. Most of the functions required in the management system can implemented as Mixed-Integer Programming problems. Commercial solvers has been contributed to solve variety of problems. Now we can use special hardware to emulate quantum computing to solve very large-scale optimization problems that could not reach to the feasible solutions even by state-of-art solvers. I will introduce one of an application of hierarchical energy management system for energy aggregation business in electric market solved by a special hard-ware which emulates quantum computing. To enhance activities for digital transformation(DX) in manufacturing enterprise, can we go farther by implementing state-of-the art technology? I would like to discuss with audience why DX is so difficult. Re-visiting the meaning of "Automation", I would like to share our experience on the way for developing FEMS: energy management system for industrial facility in IEC TC65 JWG17. I hope the outcome of the talk will guide us for developing the next generation automation in industrial facility.

BioYoshiharu Amano received his Ph. D (Engineering) degree from the Waseda University in 1998. He joined Waseda University as tenured assistant professor in 2000. He was also visiting-professor in EPFL() in 2018. He has over twenty years of experience in both scientific and industrial oriented research projects in the Japan as well as international collaboration especially in energy and systems engineering fields including sensing application for autonomous robotics. He is the director of the Industrial Open-Network Laboratory (IONL) in Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University. Since 2003, IONL has provided state-of-the-art digital communications technology to engineers in both process and discrete manufacturing industry. Since 2019, he has been a head of Japanese domestic organization for establishing international standards IEC 63376 regarding Energy Efficiency in Industrial Automation. The organization was placed in Japan Electric Measuring Instruments Manufacturers' Association (JEMIMA) and is now placed in Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA). He serves as an expert in International Electrotechnical Commission TC65/JWG14 and JWG17 to establish IEC 63376. He also directs Research Institute for Power and Energy Systems (RIPES) in Advanced Collaborative Research Organization for Smart Society in Waseda University. The mission of RIPES is to develop a theory for design of management systems for smart society by learning from hidden mechanisms in our society. RIPES has been developed energy management systems for residential use. He also has been contributed to develop an autonomous mobile mapping systems to generate variety of data relevant to high-resolution three-dimensional map.