Inventory control is a major element of an efficient operation for any business that buys and resells goods. Typical goals of inventory management include maintaining low inventory holding costs while ...

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written a lot about backups, but never about version control. In fact, when I recently wrote “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website”, I ...

The global digital economy creates a variety of internal and external factors that increase challenges in new product introduction (NPI). Products are becoming more complex, life cycles are getting ...

Overlay control based on DI metrology of optical targets has been the primary basis for run-to-run process control for many years. In previous work we described a scenario where optical overlay ...

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 ...

Process industry standards historically dictated that a separate platform be used for a safety system. But modern technology now enables fully integrated systems that can handle both the base process ...

It’s hard to imagine now, but in the mid-1980s, the Internet came close to collapsing due to the number of users congesting its networks. Computers would request packets as quickly as they could, and ...