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 ...

IperionX pilot titanium facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, built with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E program. I always have an eye out for major manufacturing process innovations ...

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

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 ...

End-to-end automation is a new wave of the industrial revolution. It is changing our understanding of manufacturing: from lights-out factories (fully autonomous production facilities without a ...

Single die packages and products have been the norm for decades. Moreover, so has multi-chip modules (MCMs) or system in package (SiP) for quite some time. Understandably, with ASICs and SoCs becoming ...

In our previous blog we posed a broad question, where do operators fit with current manufacturing technology trends? More specifically, we asked: What if we could map out each manufacturing process, ...

Whether you own a small manufacturing company or you have a company that relies on manufacturers to make your products, it's important to understand manufacturing objectives and goals. The truth is ...