On 24.11.2020 the final examination of our employee Marcel Wuwer took place in virtual form. With his topic “Prediction of the Energy Consumption of CNC machine tools using Machine Learning” he was able to convince the committee consisting of Franz Haas (examiner), Michael Bader (chairman) and Siegfried Vössner (assessor). Also at Pro²Future the topic of power and energy demand prediction for production systems is of high relevance, which enables an energy-optimized product design which is necessary to achieve climate and environmental goals.