Japanese manufacturers adopted quality-control theories developed by American experts to rebuild the Japanese industrial base after the Second World War. Japanese experts such as Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa ...

Semiconductor manufacturing gear startup Nearfield Instruments B.V. said today it has closed on €135 million ($147.6 million) in new funding to accelerate the growth of its novel process control ...

Across the full range of semiconductor device types and design nodes, there is a drive to produce chips with significantly higher quality. Automotive, IoT and other industrial applications require ...

Manufacturing quality evaluation is a critical discipline that focuses on assessing a process’s ability to produce outputs within pre‐defined tolerance limits. Recent advances combine traditional ...

For engineers and operations managers seeking to improve production performance, selecting the right throughput metrics is critical. This article outlines practical measurement approaches to help ...

From the perspective of a customer, a good quality part is one that exactly meets their specifications. For the manufacturer or fabricator, good quality control means that good quality parts can be ...

When my co-founders and I graduated from college, the Great Recession was in full swing. Jobs were scarce. Local opportunities for entrepreneurship required money we didn’t have. So, we did what any ...

In manufacturing environments focused on lean performance and sustainability, small variables often drive outsized ...

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

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 ...