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 ...

Manufacturing is getting a major system upgrade. As AI amplifies existing technologies—like digital twins, the cloud, edge ...

As Boeing Co. wages a battle with quality lapses in its 737 factory outside Seattle, there are signs of progress, like the ...

I’ve always thought the delivery performance metric best reflects how well integrated the various functions are and how interdependent they all are if we expect to consistently perform at a high level ...

A 26-year-old manufacturing process is gaining traction around the world as a cheaper alternative to traditional machining. Some experts call additive manufacturing, a process in which parts are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have developed a large-scale manufacturing process that may change the way some grocery store foods are packaged. According to Credence Research, ...

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 ...

Now that it’s “the future,” and many jobs are being automated, it seems it’s only a matter of time before the entire pizza-making process works sans humans. Here, for example, is a prototype “pizza ...