OPTIMIZATION OF SYSTEM DESIGN FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY, PROSPECTS AND CASE STUDIES NIGERIAN ARMY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MAKURDI MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Abstract

In today’s highly competitive and resource constrained environment, the optimization of system design offers a significant pathway to enhancing operational efficiency across diverse sectors. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for optimizing system architectures, highlighting the methodological processes, analytical techniques and illustrative case studies. Data were collected from real world system deployments and simulated environments, and applied optimization techniques (e.g., multi objective genetic algorithms, Pareto front analysis) to redesign system configurations. The results demonstrate measurable improvements in energy use, cost efficiency and performance throughput. The paper further discusses prospects for broader adoption, critical enablers, existing barriers, and key insights drawn from multiple case studies in manufacturing, energy systems and building design. Findings show that optimized system designs can reduce primary energy consumption by, approximately 14–30% (based on case examples) while maintaining or lowering initial investment costs, the study concludes that rigorous optimisation frameworks accelerate decision making and significally improve design outcomes.