One of the key ideas in lean manufacturing is that defects should be detected as early as possible. Efforts to control manufacturing processes so that issues can be detected before defects occur ...

Version control systems enable teams of programmers, as well as testers and other contributors, to track and make project changes from one software version to the next. The version control process ...

A research group has developed new advanced light-controlled tools that enable precise control of proteins in real time in living cells. This groundbreaking research opens doors to new methods for ...

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a category of industrial control systems (ICS) that remotely gathers data in real time from industrial processes in order to supervise and control ...

Even after 20 years or so, process control continues to be a confusing or misunderstood technology. A short description of process control is an accurate one—It’s a means of controlling manufacturing ...

With the continued need for shrinking pattern dimensions, semiconductor manufacturers continue to implement more complex patterning techniques, such as advanced multi-patterning, for the 10nm design ...

The two basic modes of process control are sequential control, or On/Off action, and continuous control action. This chapter deals with process control, discussing both sequential and continuous ...

In 2022, the dominating segment for computer vision (CV) was quality assurance and inspection because of the rapid adoption of process automation in the manufacturing industry. One of the key benefits ...

Process manufacturers have been using advanced process control (APC) and online optimization technologies for several decades. Advances are being made on the business front, increasing manufacturers’ ...

also valuable as a concise and easy-to-read reference source on the subject. This new edition provides expanded coverage of pressure, level, flow, temperature, analytical measurement, and process ...