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 ...

Much like baking the perfect cake involves following a list of ingredients and instructions, manufacturing energetic materials—explosives, pyrotechnics and propellants—requires precise formulations, ...

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 ...

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% ...

Manufacturing is no longer about small, incremental gains. AI is revolutionizing factories into intelligent, adaptive systems that drive unprecedented innovation and efficiency. For decades I’ve ...

A lot of the discussion around the Internet of Things and manufacturing has been focused on how it can streamline the manufacturing process and make it more efficient, while this is a compelling use ...

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk pleaded for more battery infrastructure in America, we toured Porsche’s incredibly advanced Smart ...