[Object] To suppress increase in load on a calculator for processing electricity charges, in a case in which an electricity retailer that purchased power of which the price fluctuates sells power on the basis of metered charges in accordance with an amount of power usage of a consumer, by controlling facility equipment of the consumer on the basis of a relation between purchase prices and metered charges of the power.

[Solution] A control device serving as a generating device that generates control information for controlling facility equipment of a consumer that purchases power from an electricity retailer includes an information acquisition unit that acquires purchase price information, which is information relating to a purchase unit price of power that the electricity retailer purchases at a predetermined increment of time and that also acquires metered charge information, which is information relating to a unit price of a metered charge of power that the electricity retailer sells at the predetermined increment of time, and a control information generating unit that generates control information for controlling the facility equipment of the consumer by using the purchase price information and the metered charge information.

Systems (100) and methods (900) for controlling movement of an articulating arm having a plurality of joints. The methods comprise: receiving, by the controller, a command to perform a task by the articulating arm; ranking movements of the joints based on how much each said joint needs to move at a first time in order to follow the command; selecting a first subset of joints with top-ranked movements from the plurality of joints, where the subset of joints comprises less than a total number of joints contained in the plurality of joints; and causing only the joints of the first subset to move during a first timeslot of a plurality of timeslots.

A method for operating an automation machine having a field bus device and an energy consumer connected to the field bus device, includes storing energy data relating to the energy consumer in the field bus device before operation of the automation machine, the energy data identifying an energy mode being stored, reading the energy data from the field bus device by a first control device connected to the field bus device via a field bus, and using the energy data for energy-saving operation of the automation machine during operation of the automation machine.

A system for allocating power generation between a constant speed generator set and a variable speed generator set. A controller determines an operating power demand from on-line consumers, and determines an anticipated transient power demand from a new consumer or one with an increasing power demand. The controller allocates the electrical power response between the generator sets to meet both the operating power demand prior to a transient condition and the total power demand upon the occurrence of the transient condition. The allocation may be based upon operating modes of the system.

The present invention deals with microgrids, which represent a new approach to integrate distributed energy resources economically reliably and efficiently. A microgrid can operate in a connected mode if it makes an energetic exchange with a main grid or in an island mode otherwise. In its island operation mode, a microgrid ensures its energy self-sufficiency. However, the availability of resources in this mode is greatly influenced by meteorological factors and the microgrid must satisfy the high requirements on intelligent power management in order to achieve high availability of energy. The present invention provides a multi-agent control system based on the production forecasting and loads shedding for high availability of the microgrid power supply.

The disclosure discloses a system for acquiring an inherent energy efficiency factor function of a CNC machine tool, the system comprises an equipment information management module, a test parameter setting module, a NC code generation module, a field test management module, a data analysis module, a validity verification module and power sensors. The NC code generation module is used to generate the NC code to control the operation of the CNC machine tool to be tested according to the test parameters and information of the CNC machine tool to be tested. The field test management module is used to analyze the power data information of power sensors and generate the input power sets of CNC machine tool in each test operation process; The data analysis module is used to generate the inherent energy efficiency factor function according to the input power set.

Systems (100) and methods (900) for controlling movement of an articulating arm having a plurality of joints. The methods comprise: receiving, by the controller, a command to perform a task by the articulating arm; ranking movements of the joints based on how much each said joint needs to move at a first time in order to follow the command; selecting a first subset of joints with top-ranked movements from the plurality of joints, where the subset of joints comprises less than a total number of joints contained in the plurality of joints; and causing only the joints of the first subset to move during a first timeslot of a plurality of timeslots.

A plant monitoring method using exergy efficiency is provided. The plant monitoring method includes detecting data associated with chemical exergy and physical exergy of each apparatus or subsystem and obtaining a chemical exergy value and a physical exergy value of each apparatus or subsystem, calculating an exergy efficiency value of each apparatus or subsystem on the basis of the detected data, and identifying a maintenance target which refers to an apparatus or subsystem that needs to be improved in efficiency on the basis of data obtained through the calculating of the exergy efficiency value.

[Object] To suppress increase in load on a calculator for processing electricity charges, in a case in which an electricity retailer that purchased power of which the price fluctuates sells power on the basis of metered charges in accordance with an amount of power usage of a consumer, by controlling facility equipment of the consumer on the basis of a relation between purchase prices and metered charges of the power. [Solution] A control device serving as a generating device that generates control information for controlling facility equipment of a consumer that purchases power from an electricity retailer includes an information acquisition unit that acquires purchase price information, which is information relating to a purchase unit price of power that the electricity retailer purchases at a predetermined increment of time and that also acquires metered charge information, which is information relating to a unit price of a metered charge of power that the electricity retailer sells at the predetermined increment of time, and a control information generating unit that generates control information for controlling the facility equipment of the consumer by using the purchase price information and the metered charge information.

An electric power demand control system selects a presswork device as a target of electric power demand control in a case where the ratio of the total time length of a non-working state of the presswork device within a time period to the total time length of a working state of the presswork device within the time period is larger than a threshold. This makes it possible to alleviate, for example, (i) a decrease in production efficiency caused by electric power demand control at a facility at which production lines are installed and (ii) environmental deterioration due to electric power demand control.