5 min
Data Science Institute, a part of the Usha Martin Group, is hosting a one day workshop on ways to increase efficiency and throughput in the manufacturing and engineering sector. The ‘Intelligent Manufacturing’ workshop is exclusively for 20 business leaders from the manufacturing and engineering sector to discuss the benefits of Data Science and Big Data Analytics. The workshop will be run by renowned Data Scientist and consultant Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru.
Mumbai – 11th December 2014
“Intelligent Manufacturing” will focus on using Data Science and Big Data Analytics for deriving meaningful business insights that will help manufacturing industries improve efficiency and throughput.
Through this workshop we are creating a platform for only 20 senior management delegates to discuss one-on-one case studies based on our experiences of Data Science consulting, including one of India's biggest manufacturing companies. Through this knowledge sharing forum, we aim to edify the attendees on:
- Introduction to extracting insights from Data
- Data Science case studies across verticals
- Differences between the data science way, statistical way and engineering way for solving manufacturing problems
- Scoping a Data Science and Big Data problem
- A 1000 feet view of Data Science project life cycle
- How to scope Data Science problem, what type of business problems can be solved, how to prioritize?
- Techniques to analyse data, how to execute Data Science projects?
- What type of statistical model is used to solve various Data Science problems?
- How to scientifically evaluate the ROI?
- Productivity enhancement of a plant
- Failure detection in contact lens manufacturing
- Supply chain optimization for waste treatment
- Building good Data Science teams, skill sets needed and identifying good partners
- How analytics can substantially help a manufacturing unit through real-world use cases from operations, quality, supply chain and marketing.
- Case Studies about:
- Productivity enhancement of a plant
- Failure detection in contact lens manufacturing
- Supply chain optimization for waste treatment
- Customer analysis for FMCG
- Data science through a one-on-one discussion and Question and Answer session
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