An intermediate good is a good that is used in the production process that creates another good, which can be a finished product or even another intermediate good.

If you are a software engineer and run process automation projects in your company or on behalf of the customer based on CIB seven Process Engine, you probably are familiar with process variables. CIB ...

Learn how to distinguish marginal costs by exploring their relationship with fixed and variable costs in production.

ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the process to align U.S. core childhood vaccine ...

You’ll learn about instrumentation and valves. The article identifies the importance of positioners in fast loops. How first-principle dynamic simulations provide insights into compressor surge, ...

Then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates conducts a joint press conference with then-South Korean Minister of Defense Kim Jang-soo at the Ministry of Defense, Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 7, 2007. It ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

In the latest post of the Ask the Automation Pros blog series, the pros explore how to deal with interacting PID loops. I kept thinking “what aren’t the sources?!” A plant is full to the brim with ...

There is a chance we can all get on the same page as to what really is going on in a process’s dynamic response. There is a lot of confusion that can be resolved if we have a fundamental understanding ...

Aaron Schulenburg, left, chairman of the CIC Parts and Materials Committee, moderates a panel discussing some of the factors making blending a more complex and variable process. While body shops, ...