“…Typically, in the near future, each production resource should be accompanied with an integrated module enabling the easy management of its energy profile (including monitoring of energy consumption/production, energy-state management, energy-losses or energy-savings management, easy switch off/on, etc.). Axiomatic or feature-based design may be useful in this context (Zein et al 2011;Hu et al 2014), as well as function block-oriented approaches (Peng, Xu, and Wang 2014).…”