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Automating batch processing and sending accurate data to enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other systems can alter how a plant functions. Before Washington Quality Foods, in Halethrope, Md., ...

A decade ago, the development of cluster tools in the IC manufacturing industry seemed to herald the end of batch processing systems. Single-wafer, multichamber tools were the wave of the future—they ...

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 ...

BMC Software announced a new release of its BMC Batch Impact Manager solution, intended to reduce the time needed to resolve IT bottlenecks in batch environments. BMC says its Batch Impact Manager ...

Real-time streaming data applications may get all the press, but the reality is that much of the business world still runs in batch mode. As companies grow, so does the volume of management reports ...

significantly enhanced if it has on-line connectivity with, and access to, the work-in-process inventory system that contains the actual, sampled characteristics and attributes (i.e., potency, percent ...

Continuous processing can get products to market about 12 months faster than batch processing, according to a 2022 paper by the FDA. Understandably, the drive to transition to continuous bioprocessing ...