While manufacturing operations may not be more complex than other businesses, their management deals with the production of physical items that incorporate costly materials and labor and that ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Recent research conducted by Tech-Clarity (with input from Automation World subscribers) for the report, “The Manufacturing Data Challenge: Lessons from Top Performers,” shows that top performers in ...

A manufacturer designs, develops and creates products from raw materials for sale to distributors or retailers. Manufacturing operations management refers to the ongoing process of monitoring and ...

The speed of money – how fast profits are generated by investments – is of prime importance to investors. Making money faster from the capital tied up in a business has always been the name of the ...

Authors, Tom Seubert and Grant Vokey, explain how the newest edition of their book, Manufacturing Execution Systems: An Operations Management Approach, Second Edition, helps MOM practitioners ...

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 ...

Advanced manufacturing technologies encompass a suite of digital and automated processes—such as additive manufacturing, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and the Industrial Internet of ...

Inefficiency plagues the manufacturing industry. Statistics are studied and cited more now than at any other point in history. Plant managers and engineers spend their days gawking at facts and ...

Engineering managers focus on product quality, employee efficiency and financial management. They seek to enhance productivity and improve the results of complex engineering projects. Engineering ...