Businesses are all over the map when it comes to how their processes work. If you thought that the business process re-engineering (BPR) wave of the 1990s sorted all of this out, you’re wrong. A lot ...

Once upon a time, integrated circuits (ICs) were built by the same companies that designed them. The design of an IC was tightly integrated with the manufacturing processes available within each ...

Why does anything have to change? A manufacturing company’s most critical product decisions are made every day in design reviews. And if you assess the state of what a design review looks like today, ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Process design kits consist of a set of files that typically contain descriptions of the basic building blocks of the process. They are expressed, algorithmically, as Pcells. These descriptions are ...

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An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

To design a truly effective automation system, integrators must first understand all the processes involved in an operator or technician’s work day. As system integrators, we’re the ones responsible ...