Reducing costs and improving sales is the goal of every business. Business operations constitute many processes, including material acquisition, manufacturing costs and product delivery. Business ...

The strategic administration of production processes and personnel to maximize output, minimize errors and continually enhance product quality come under the general banner of "operations management." ...

ISA106 started with the goal of developing standards, recommended practices, and technical reports on the design and implementation of procedures for automating continuous process operations. The ...

Every organization faces operational inefficiencies that can impede productivity, hinder growth and waste resources. As a leader, it's your responsibility to identify these inefficiencies and ...

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 is ...

Digitalization, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality are some examples of rapidly developing areas of technology that will have a big impact on how ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, ...

In Army headquarters, commanders frequently leave a meeting without the knowledge they need to know to make decisions. This is mostly the result of insufficient or incomplete running estimates. Staffs ...

The first article in this two-part series (OGJ, May 6, 2013, p. 94) presented four process safety examples of possible inadequate overpressure protection design in amine natural gas sweetening, glycol ...