Special Issue on Intelligent Energy Solutions to Sustainable Production and Service Automation

Energy places an important role in a new scale of urbanization, digitization, and industrialization. Going 'energy-efficient' then becomes a major component of the missions for manufacturers and service providers to stay globally competitive. In recent years, the newly emerging intelligent technologies are enhancing the production process and control management in an energy-effective and-efficient manner. In order to apply and implement these innovations, many new challenges and opportunities have emerged and significantly expanded the scopes of typical production and service automation.