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The work puts forward a framework for designing prescriptive decision support system for a multi-machine manufacturing environment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The schema of the decision support system design begins with the development of a simulation model for a manufacturing shop floor. The developed model facilitates prediction followed by prescription. As a connecting link between prediction and prescription mechanism, heuristics for intervention have been proposed. Sequential design and simulation-based demonstration of activities that span from development of a multi-machine shop floor model; a prediction mechanism and a scheme of intervention that ultimately leads to prescription generation are the highlights of the current work.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study reveals that the effect of intervention on the observed predictors varies from one another. For a machine under observation, subject to same intervention scheme, while two of the predictive measures namely penalty and desirability stabilize after a certain point, a third measure, i.e. complexity, shows either an increase or decrease in percent change. 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