Bayer MaterialScience and Dow Chemical are on the leading edge of pending industry standards that promise to widen the appeal of procedure automation—a system design and programming approach known to ...

Prima Power has introduced Laser Next Core, the newest addition to its 3D laser cutting range. The compact machine is ...

Due to hardware and software limitations, batch control systems have evolved as two distinct parts: equipment control in the distributed control system (DCS) or programmable logic controller (PLC), ...

This paper examines the impact of customer order sizes on a make-to-stock system with multiple demand classes. We first characterize the manufacturer's optimal production and rationing policies when ...