How technology advances enable software-defined manufacturing (SDM) SDM architectures are based on open hardware and software that is both portable and interoperable. Unlike proprietary systems that ...

A manufacturing overhead budget contains all the costs, other than raw materials and labor, that will be incurred by a manufacturing company or department during a fiscal year. These ongoing costs ...

The Manufacturing Interoperability Guideline Working Group has decided to normalize manufacturing interoperability standards for process, discrete, and mixed-mode manufacturing using the ISA-95 and ...

Even so, the US manufacturing sector had been on a modest rebound before Trump’s tariff announcement. Several companies — including Nvidia, Apple and Stellantis — have announced investments ...

Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) systems evolved from materials requirement planning (MRP) systems by including the integration of additional data, such as employee and financial needs.