Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

Managing time effectively at a time of decreasing resources was a challenge I had to overcome in the past year. Running a small company, juggling tactical details while optimizing strategy required me ...

Batch processing is the key to many of these supporting back-end processes. But at precisely the time the proliferation of modern apps is placing greater demands on batch processing, the industry is ...

In batch processing, if costs are not isolated, high-volume customers and products tend to subsidize lower-volume ones. This article reviews different types of batch activities and how they would be ...

Have you ever bought something expensive, say a consumer electronics device, only to see it on sale at a significantly discounted price soon after? Well, it happened to Charles Nicholls, founder and ...

Batch process scheduling and optimisation is a critical area of research that addresses the timing, sequencing, and allocation of production tasks in industries where manufacturing is carried out in ...

Advanced Systems Concepts has just launched ActiveBatch V11. It expands ActiveBatch's support of the Hadoop ecosystem and adds new features to improve workflow performance. Production-ready content ...

One of the most exciting things about Sepasoft's Batch and Procedure module is that it enables tight integration between the process cell (as it is functionally defined) and the graphical interface ...

(1) Processing a group of files or databases from start to completion rather than having the user open, edit and save each of them one at a time. For example, a graphics conversion utility can change ...