“…Therefore, during the last years more robust control systems able to treat and use the available information have been developed. For example, currently, control systems oriented to prognosis and maintenance of manufacturing systems, based on the historical data, have been developed with the aim to predict and program the required changes or maintenance activities [107,108,109]. Additional to the prediction of maintenance tasks, strategies such as receding horizon control and advanced methods of process control (e.g., model predictive control (MPC)), have started to gain attention too, mainly, focusing on problems of energy efficiency and flexibility for planning and scheduling of processes at machine, line, and plant level [110,111,112,113].…”