Making fan blades for airplanes used to be pretty straightforward, but now it’s a whole different ballgame. We’re talking ...

ocated 90 minutes west of Tokyo in the shadow of Mount Fuji, Oshino, Japan, is home to 9,000 people—which means that in any given year, the robots produced at the town’s FANUC plant outnumber humans ...

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...

Manufacturing overhead – also called indirect costs – are any costs that a factory incurs other than direct materials and direct labor needed to manufacture goods, notes "Accounting 2," a reference ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is accelerating a quiet revolution on the factory floor: using artificial intelligence to design, inspect, ...

The Army needs to embrace advanced manufacturing at the beginning of new system development to surpass potential foes. In the future, advanced manufacturing techniques like 3D printing could allow ...

Technological innovations throughout the past several decades have transformed the pharmaceutical manufacturing process from traditional batch production to ...

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, ...

In this article, the most common errors occurring at different stages of the semiconductor fabrication process and the strategies to mitigate them are discussed. The ever-growing complexity of the ...

In this interview, News-Medical Life Sciences talks to Karen Esmonde-White from Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. and Ola Wesstrom from Endress+Hauser about their analysis solutions for improving food ...