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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

There is no underestimating the impact that the process manufacturing industry has on society today. Process manufacturing deals with formulas and basic ingredients, as in biotech, pharma and chemical ...

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 ...

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 ...

JEC caught up with Lourens Blok, CTO of Lineat, for an update on progress with their aligned recycled carbon fibre prepreg tape. With material in production ... Following on from issue 167 of JEC ...