Increased agility, flexibility, visibility, efficiency, productivity, safety — all are lofty goals that process manufacturing companies would like to attain. Yet, optimization in any of these areas is ...

The manufacturing process is a complex one that can be impacted by many factors: supplies, equipment, factory overhead, the need for special parts, and the people who work at all points in the process ...

At its core business process management is the administrative activities aimed at (1) defining a process, (2) establishing responsibilities, (3) evaluating process performance and (4) identifying ...

Much of the discussion about the development of Industry 4.0 has concentrated on discrete industries. Manufacturers of all sorts of products, from cars to shoes, are discovering how integrating the ...

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In a world full of "smart" devices (i.e., smartphones, smart watches, and smart appliances), such technology is increasingly entering manufacturing and processing in forms like condition monitoring, ...

Supervising a manufacturing process involves attending to the individual phases of the process as well as to the flow of goods and materials through the different phases that must be coordinated to ...

Historically, pharmaceutical products have been produced in a traditional ‘batch’ system, in which every operation is executed separately using a defined quantity of materials. In batch manufacturing ...