Managing time effectively at a time of decreasing resources was a challenge I had to overcome in the past year. Running a small company, juggling tactical details while optimizing strategy required me ...

Batch processing is the key to many of these supporting back-end processes. But at precisely the time the proliferation of modern apps is placing greater demands on batch processing, the industry is ...

(1) Processing a group of files or databases from start to completion rather than having the user open, edit and save each of them one at a time. For example, a graphics conversion utility can change ...

Have you ever bought something expensive, say a consumer electronics device, only to see it on sale at a significantly discounted price soon after? Well, it happened to Charles Nicholls, founder and ...

Arla Foods’ new dairy plant in England provides ample evidence that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Head of engineering Soeren Vonsild describes Arla’s necessity this way. “In this dairy, ...

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In batch processing, if costs are not isolated, high-volume customers and products tend to subsidize lower-volume ones. This article reviews different types of batch activities and how they would be ...