Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

The major ingredients present in synthetically manufactured fertilizers include various types of compounds containing nitrogen (N), and potassium (K), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K), Granular ...

The starting material for virtually all pharmaceuticals and biologics is a synthetic or chemical. Human plasma-derived therapies are one of the few exceptions. A number of fragile proteins can be ...

In smart manufacturing, timely and accurate data flow is critical. Manufacturers seek to monitor every step in their process to ensure optimal results. However, significant challenges include ...

The authors describe the operational requirements and design of a process-ready PAT-based IBD system. Chromatography is an integral step in downstream bioprocessing, and buffered mobile-phase ...

If Boeing’s latest plan succeeds, a single mishandled job will have prompted some of the manufacturer’s most fundamental production-line process changes in decades. That job was supposed to have fixed ...

If you can identify the bottlenecks that are slowing down your production line, you can speed up manufacturing and increase productivity. In manufacturing, there is always one part of the process that ...

Even though it’s what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. Why? Consider the story of Technicolor. Brad Power is a consultant who helps ...

Most research labs can make cells that produce antibodies. The trick is making those antibodies in sufficient quantity and quality to use throughout clinical trials and for manufacturing scale-up.