Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

A manager's responsibility is to get her team to achieve the organization's goals. The four functions of a manager are to plan, organize, lead and control her team. Feedback control is a process that ...

The COVID supply chain crisis acted like a stress test, revealing many structural problems in supply chains. Executives learned that they had less visibility, less real-time information, and less ...

An inventory control system is a system the encompasses all aspects of managing a company’s inventories; purchasing, shipping, receiving, tracking, warehousing and storage, turnover, and reordering.

Control rooms are vital for organizations to efficiently and effectively monitor multiple information streams and make accurate mission-critical decisions. With an ever-increasing number of content ...

In a recent article, I took a critical look at the burgeoning robotic process automation (RPA) market – and found that in many cases, vendor promises were well ahead of functionality for this ...

Environmental contamination control is a crucial aspect of sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, and risk management is needed to guarantee that the necessary control procedures are in place. The risk ...

Author Dr. R. Russell Rhinehart discusses his new book, Nonlinear Model-Based Control: Using First-Principles Models in Process Control, and explains why nonlinear first-principles models should be ...

Obtaining FDA clearance or approval is just the beginning of a company’s regulatory journey. As FDA-regulated products evolve, changes to software, labeling, manufacturing processes, and design are a ...

Advanced packaging is transforming semiconductor manufacturing into a multi-dimensional challenge, blending 2D front-end wafer fabrication with 2.5D/3D assemblies, high-frequency device ...