Maintenance planning in the Aviation industry
Be it a house, a car or a nuclear power plant, maintenance is a key consideration when building or acquiring a new asset. This post introduces some concepts related to aircraft maintenance.
Be it a house, a car or a nuclear power plant, maintenance is a key consideration when building or acquiring a new asset. This post introduces some concepts related to aircraft maintenance.
One of the most important challenges that Energy Trading departments face is how to deal with uncertainty regarding purchase and sale decisions. In this post we will explain, with a very simple example, what it entails to optimize these decisions in uncertain volatile markets, where predictions are not sufficiently reliable.
Although the word "trading" is usually associated with the stock market, in which Prescriptive Analytics is used extensively to optimize purchases and sales of securities such as stocks or bonds, it also exists in other markets, including energy.
Prescriptive analytics was missing in this industry's transition to the 4.0 paradigm, in particular in the areas of production planning and scheduling.
Very few leaders in the business world discuss the need to exploit their existing data to make decisions and incorporate advanced analytics into their processes.
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