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 ...

Factory overhead is any cost other than direct materials or direct labor, such as electricity, incurred while manufacturing inventory. Work-in-process inventory is what a company has started ...

Although some aspects of process validation for continuous processes are the same as those for traditional batch processes, there are some unique considerations. Although some aspects of process ...

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Successful manufacturing is inextricably linked to process control. If processes are not controlled, the eventual output may not fall within the required parameters. Using baking as an example, when ...

The decision was final, and the plan was to construct a new addition to help keep up with market demand. The senior leadership decided that moving the factory and building another factory was cost ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

Siemens’ state-of-the-art Electronic Works facility in Amberg, Germany, integrates its manufacturing, production and automation systems to process 1.6 billion components from 250 suppliers with 99% ...

Many aspects of the AI revolution are geared toward knowledge work – partly because these new models are so good at thinking in human-like ways. We’re not used to computers being able to contemplate ...

CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today global fitness leader Reebok introduces Liquid Factory – a ground-breaking manufacturing innovation that could fundamentally change the process and speed of ...