Prescriptive Analytics for Production Systems

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Term

Irregularly in summer terms. Next planned offering expected in summer term 2025.

Language

English

Applicability

• Industrial Management

• Business Analytics and Operations Management (only PO2021)

• Electives modul

Course content

The course provides an overview of various prescriptive techniques for data-driven design and control of intelligent production systems, including:

• Robust Optimization
• Stochastic Dynamic Programming
• Reinforcement Learning

Students will implement the methods in case studies in the context of Industry 4.0 and use them to support decision-making in production systems.

Learning goals

• Students know the basic principles of different prescriptive analytics approaches.
• Students learn to select suitable approaches and use them to derive decisions from realistic data sets.

Grading

Casework (written reports, group presentations)

Written exam, 45 minutes