The move to standardize processes has gone overboard, say M. Eric Johnson and Joseph M. Hall in this month’s Harvard Business Review. Some processes, they argue, are more akin to art than science and ...

The challenges of managing and growing a successful apparel and textile manufacturing operation are becoming increasingly complex, especially for those that are producing multiple product lines from ...

Unplanned extubation events (UPEs) in neonates are hazardous to patient safety. Our goal was to reduce UPE rate (#UPEs per 100 ventilator days) by 50% in 12 months at our 25-bed level III inborn unit.

There is an interesting secret within the biggest trend in service delivery in an effort to compete globally in volatile times. As global enterprises move toward global process standardization, many ...

The production of formal, accredited standards has to be a repeatable process. The quality and integrity of the results depends on it. Like all good engineering practices, well-documented processes ...

SEMI spoke with Udo Gómez, senior vice president at Robert Bosch GmbH, about MEMS technology requirements relative to standard IC design and manufacturing. Gómez highlighted solutions to challenges of ...

Patients are more likely to get hospital-acquired infection than lose their checked airline luggage, according to Maureen Spencer, RN, an infection prevention and clinical implementation consultant.

Over the past few years, we have seen many of our data center clients shift to more modular one-size-fits-all designs that can be rapidly and repeatedly deployed across all sites in their portfolios.

Signaling its ambitions in the process automation market, Microsoft has acquired Minit, a Bratislava, Slovakia-originated process mining technology vendor, for an undisclosed sum, the companies ...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to making an organization's workflows more effective, efficient, and adaptable. The heart of effective BPM uses Business Process Modeling and ...