“…Prescription, in a way, is an adaptive, automated and time-dependent course of action generated under given objectives (Kumari et al, 2017;Vater et al, 2019). Prescriptive analytics is a self-evolving mechanism which continually adds new data to re-predict and represcribe, thus repeatedly improving the prediction accuracy and prescribing improved decision alternatives (Weng et al, 2008;Jin et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2020). In the context of manufacturing, while prediction allows a user to see in the future state of its shop floor, prescription acts as a means of advising an action plan to guide the procedure of shaping the future (Inmon and Nesavich, 2007;Jain and Shao, 2014;Zhong et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2020).…”