The technology arena is almost always the starting point of automation and standard operating process efforts. Businesses rely on operational blueprints called IT run books, which are highly ...

In today’s fast-moving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition often boils down to one thing—efficiency. For savvy entrepreneurs and business leaders, leveraging technology to streamline ...

The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process enables synchronization in supply chain management by integrating an organization's supply, demand and new product plans. Once the process is ...

Jay Marable Photo Technology is the enabler of business process automation (BPA), and it can automate workflows to the point where human intervention is unnecessary.

1. Productize your capabilities. First, leaders must identify the products around which their operating model will be designed. We define a “product” in this context as: ...

It works best when the operations improvement team pulls in technology to add value for specific process improvements and avoids pushing technology because there is good buzz about it. When deployed ...

How People, Process And Technology Drive Manufacturing Sustainability. ByAndreas Eschbach, ... No matter what new operating tests or new raw tests are added, ...

Microsoft and a U.S. national laboratory on Wednesday said they are partnering to examine how artificial intelligence could ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that ...

During the 2017 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Operations & Process Technology Summit (formerly Q&A and Technology Forum), Oct. 2-4, 2017, US domestic and international ...