ENHANCING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF AN AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING SHOP THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS.

This paper will discuss the need for the Trenzo automobile manufacturing company's paint shop to replace and upgrade existing air agitator motors. The project aims to reduce the cost of energy and asset mean time between failures by utilizing an air motor that relies on reduced airflow pressure while performing at the same elevated level as the previous motor. The project will replace 75 air agitator motors that run on average twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Based on the research in the project section, the company can reduce energy consumption in the paint shop by 50% by replacing inefficient motors. Although it is widely known that an electric motor is inherently more efficient, the air motors are safer due to the environment in which the motors are used. The analysis will include the energy study of upgraded air agitators and outdated motors. After the installation, the motors were tracked, and energy consumption was collected for six months. In the analysis of the collected data after the project ended, it is shown that energy consumption was calculated to be an actual reduction of 66% and a higher equipment uptime for the assets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]