The following uses cases are addressed in this specification.

As a user, I want to know the electricity and piped resources consumption (per part or per output produced) to be able to determine key figures.

As a user, I want to know the electricity and piped resources consumption (per operating condition) to be able to determine key figures.

As a user, I want to measure the energy consumption over an external coordinated time period.

As a user, I want to see the change in energy consumption to assess the condition of the consumer. With regard to condition monitoring, the consumer may be a machine, component, system or process.

As a user, I want to see the energy consumption so I can relate it to a production phase.

As a user, I would like to know the energy consumption in the individual operating modes in order to be able to compare machines and minimize standby consumption, among other things.

As a user, I want to know the largest consumers in the facility in order to identify optimization potential.

As an energy manager, I want to know the energy consumption of individual functions so that I can compare machines and minimize standby consumption, among other things.

As a user, I want to know the energy consumption in order to optimize the production parameters.

As a user, I would like to determine the potential energy savings between existing and new equipment in order to apply for government funding and/or to reduce energy costs.

As a user, I would like to know the energy consumption of the individual machine components in order to be able to compare machine components, among other things, and to minimize the consumption of the components in the respective operating state.

As a user, I want to know the electrical load behaviour of my equipment in order to avoid expensive load peaks or overload shutdowns.

As a user, I want to know the load behaviour of all forms of energy in my equipment in order to avoid peak loads, for example, I would like to know the pneumatic load behaviour of my operating equipment, for example, in order to avoid inadmissible lowering of the pressure.

As a user, I want to know the energy consumption/load profile of the production (per component/per operating condition) in order to be able to cover the energy requirements of the machine with the production plan.

As a user, I would like to determine the CO2 emissions per unit produced/per operating condition in order to calculate component-specific carbon footprint (or product-specific carbon footprint).

As a user, I would like to determine the CO2 emissions per year in order to draw up the balance sheet for the machine.

As a user, I would like to receive information about the connected load of the machines and components in the facility in order to carry out energy network planning and, if necessary, increase production capacities.

As a user, I would like to record and compensate for the reactive power of the machine up to the total production in order to save costs and reduce internal losses.

As a user, I want to ensure voltage/network quality to avoid power and production outages.

As a user, I want to ensure voltage quality to avoid machine failure.

Note that not all use cases are directly addressed by the information model defined in this specification, but provide the base information so that clients can implement the use case.

The following uses cases are addressed in this specification to support all scenarios of energy saving for planned or unplanned pauses:

As a user I want to request switching in energy saving modes by only requesting the pause period and the entity should go to a fitting energy saving mode. The entity shall select the best fitting energy saving mode from the perspective of energy savings and startup time.

As a user I want to interrupt an active energy saving mode.

As a user I want to change the duration of an active energy saving mode or switch to another energy saving mode.