Companies have already cut back or even stopped production due to the drastic rise in energy prices. Anyone who is over their head with gas and oil prices - or who wants to do something about dependence on politically difficult countries as a matter of principle - will find very practical support from the renowned 42 university and Fraunhofer institutes of the WGP.
The association of 70 leading professors of production technology in Germany has been working for many years on innovative technologies that make local production more efficient, more resilient and more sustainable. The fruits of this work with their concrete savings potential are now being presented in a bundled form. Interested companies can research the packages of measures and WGP employees can adapt them to the respective conditions in a specific company on request - free of charge and on site if necessary.
The WGP efficiency initiative was recently launched. Since then, there have been more and more concrete cases in which companies have successfully saved energy. 45% savings in production are possible. This is demonstrated by the ETA demo factory at TU Darmstadt. It has also been shown that optimized control of ventilation systems in drying rooms can save a good 35% of energy. And minimum quantity lubrication can reduce the required output by 28%. "There are already solutions for many processes, including energy-intensive ones, that help to save a lot of energy. The problem is that they are not sufficiently well known," states Prof. Jens P. Wulfsberg, President of the WGP (Scientific Society for Production Technology).
