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 ...

Fueled by a need to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, continuous processing may be the next paradigm shift in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Although common in other process manufacturing ...

The concept of hybrid AI in PM, highlighting the connections between the various components of hybrid AI tools for PSE (left), the four selected PM topics (middle), and examples of problems (right) ...

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 ...

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 ...

As industry shifts to continuous biomanufacturing, engineers integrate process design, digital tools, automation, and ...

U.S. food manufacturers face a lot of challenges today. They must produce high-quality food products while using fewer ...

An ERP system for the process manufacturing industry from Oracle that runs on a variety of Unix-based computers. It provides more than a dozen integrated modules for research and development, ...

In nearly all regions and industries, markets for products reflect the impact of globalization. The tactic of competing on price is increasingly giving way to a wider range of factors—including ...