Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises face enormous environmental challenges, due to complex and diverse economic trends, including shorter product life cycles, rapid advances in science and technology, increased diversity in customer demands and globalization of production activities. Consequently, the cost is highly affected by environmentally related factors. Energy efficiency is one of the main factors, which together with waste management, affect manufacturing decisions. The complexity and diversity of the factors that determine energy efficiency require intelligent systems for their optimization at each “manufacturing level”. Manufacturing decisions should be taken as fast as possible and with the highest possible accuracy. Artificial intelligence/machine learning...