DENiM, E2COMATION, ECOFACT and EnerMan form a Project Group based on commonalities between their work in this research field. They are funded by Horizon 2020 and are grouped together under the call DT-FOF-09-2020 - Energy-efficient manufacturing system management (IA). The initial tasks included the publication of the white paper 'Pathways to Energy Efficient Manufacturing through Digitization' and the creation of a project catalogue.