As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...

A process map is a visual diagram of a process that involves multiple steps. Maps help give managers a comprehensive overview of a process in order to spot inefficiencies, slack time or bottleneck ...

The means for achieving therapeutic goals resides in the active pharmaceutical ingredient of the drug used, and therefore there must be a manufacturing process capable of producing this valuable ...

Semiconductor process engineers would love to develop successful process recipes without the guesswork of repeated wafer testing. Unfortunately, developing a successful process can’t be done without ...

The first article in this two-part series (OGJ, May 6, 2013, p. 94) presented four process safety examples of possible inadequate overpressure protection design in amine natural gas sweetening, glycol ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

One challenge faced by all control systems integrators (CSIs) is the prospect of testing their software before deployment. CSIs often work remotely, without having the actual equipment to manipulate, ...