In an industry where product quality increasingly determines competitive advantage, the ability to see what you're processing ...

Ever wondered how those powerful welding machines that join metal get made? It’s quite a process, really. It starts with just ...

For manufacturers seeking to improve operational performance, understanding how waste appears on the shop floor — and how to ...

Pharmaceutical manufacturing steps are often isolated in space and time. The synthesis, isolation and purification of the drug substance (DS) and the formulation of the drug product (DP) may be ...

Operations is a core functional area of an organization, along with marketing, human resources and accounting. Operations management plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of products and ...

ocated 90 minutes west of Tokyo in the shadow of Mount Fuji, Oshino, Japan, is home to 9,000 people—which means that in any given year, the robots produced at the town’s FANUC plant outnumber humans ...

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 ...

MaintainX reports that integrating maintenance data into product design enhances reliability, reduces downtime, and speeds up ...