The research vision of the strategic project ?energy management and data-driven modeling for sustainable production? deals with energy and resource efficiency in batch production as well as polymer processing as a subject of extremely importance for all partner organizations. The focus lies on (i) reducing high energy consumption due to long process times and decreasing the high-power peaks due to acceleration of machinery components (ii) online/inline quality control based on data driven analytics and artificial intelligence. The vision of this project is to provide a scientific output leading to (i) significant reduction of energy and power consumption and (ii) improved quality monitoring and defect detection of the production systems.