Salonitis, Konstantinos2023-03-032023-03-032023-02-27Salonitis K (2023) Manufacturing energy efficiency and Industry 4.0, Energies, Volume 16, Issue 5, February 2023, Article number 22681996-1073https://doi.org/10.3390/en16052268https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19258This Special Issue of Energies was devoted to the topic of “Manufacturing Energy Efficiency and Industry 4.0”. To a great extent, this issue follows the successful previous Special Issue on “Energy Efficiency of Manufacturing Processes and Systems”, which attracted some significant attention from scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from all over the world. In total, six papers were published. The main topics included energy efficiency improvement in both the manufacturing process and system levels, as well as how this can be facilitated through the use of Industry 4.0.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/green manufacturingindustrial internet of thingsindustry 4.0 industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPS)big data management in manufacturingindustrial sustainabilityartificial intelligencemachine learning for energy-efficient manufacturingArticle