When I speak with plant managers, COOs, or heads of operations today, the conversation usually starts the same way. Production is running at its limits. Teams are stretched thin. And despite decades ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This is the last article in the series on building a ...

Manufacturing industries continuously seek ways to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and maximize profitability. In meta ...

At its core business process management is the administrative activities aimed at (1) defining a process, (2) establishing responsibilities, (3) evaluating process performance and (4) identifying ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Companies that make things have certain characteristics that set them apart from others, including retailers and service firms. They take ...

Moving quality beyond enforcement and into daily operations helps teams surface problems sooner and improve performance across the manufacturing system.

As a prerequisite and foundation for production and manufacturing, the design of product manufacturing process plays a crucial role in improving production efficiency, controlling resource consumption ...

If you think your process automation system has run its course, you’re not alone. It was recently forecast that $65 billion worth of process automation systems are nearing the end of their useful life ...