Chapter 10

Improving Operations

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Plugging into operational improvement use cases

check Manufacturing with autonomous robotics

check Building up business process efficiency

check Logging some serious logistics wins

check Creating content with the click of a button

What company doesn’t want to operate more efficiently? What company doesn’t want to spend (or waste) fewer resources on the internal processes it needs in order to produce its assets or services and sell them in exchange for money? None. All businesses want to improve and refine their operations so that they can make better profits with the same levels of input resources. That’s business, and it’s why data science is used extensively in making improvements to business operations. In fact, operational improvement is one of the most important types of use cases for data science and AI. In this chapter, you’ll do a shallow dive into how data science is being used to optimize operations with respect to manufacturing, business processes, ...

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