Energy consumption modelling and forecasting in automotive paint shop

The subject of this paper is a model able to give an analytical formulation of physical phenomena involved in the automotive paint shop processes and to provide energy consumption forecasts. To test and validate the model an assembly plant of the FCA group was chosen. The validation work, still in place, coincided with a measurement campaign carried out in the selected factory in order to gather actual energy consumption data from each sub-process, and to compare these with expected consumptions. The monitoring activity performed has developed a transferable methodology useful to test the model in other factories.