goals in times of ever-expanding complexity and variety of
products. Production planning and control comprises two
sectors: Production planning, dealing with long-term and
short-term planning processes, and production control, aiming
at approving and monitoring the production orders processed
at any time [4]. In the production planning, there are
individual, consecutive process steps, for example the
planning of schedules, the planning of volumes, the planning
of dates and capacities, as well as the machine scheduling.
Each of these steps contributes to the overall frame, in which
the manufacturing schedule is being continually rendered
more precisely [5]. In the past, numerous authors in the
scientific literature have dealt with integrating energy as a
resource into the production planning and control. However,
their approaches focus on integrating energy efficiency into
production planning [6]. A new approach brings the
optimization of the way of obtaining energy into focus. Here,
the examination is limited to the public grid; the approach
does not consider on-site generation nor the use of on-site
generation and energy storages [7]. Yet, integrating the
energy market into the production planning and control
systems forms the basis for considering on-site generation and
energy storage.