The optimization of resources and energy consumption of production system is one of the fields in which industries should make relevant improvements to successfully integrate sustainability aspects in the Factory of the Future (FoF). Due to the complexity of this issue, one of important challenge for the success of any assessment or resource optimization strategy concerns the control and the availability of all relevant data and knowledge along the product lifecycle. The aim of this work is to explore the capabilities of knowledge based frameworks combined to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approaches as a backbone for supporting resources optimization within a sustainability perspective.