Markus Hammer investigates a time-based and analytics-supported operations management approach.
He explores five perspectives: 1) the needs of industry in particular manufacturing in process
industries 2) the impact of digitization with focus on Big Data and analytics 3) the
management of operations through time-based performance metrics 4) how operations improvement
methods and advanced process control help achieve resource-productive operations and 5)
learning from practice based on two empirical case studies. The author conceives explains and
tests an implementation methodology. The final case study proves that the developed
implementation methodology works in practice.
