For engineers and operations managers seeking to improve production performance, selecting the right throughput metrics is critical. This article outlines practical measurement approaches to help ...

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

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 ...

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

Within the manufacturing arena, the term "task interdependence" describes the manner in which different business units are reliant upon one another during the production phase. Pooled, reciprocal and ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI is already helping the biopharmaceutical industry to optimize its manufacturing activities, according to IFPMA.

In this article, the most common errors occurring at different stages of the semiconductor fabrication process and the strategies to mitigate them are discussed. The ever-growing complexity of the ...