The strategic administration of production processes and personnel to maximize output, minimize errors and continually enhance product quality come under the general banner of "operations management." ...

In an effort to make your production line more efficient, look at the different ways to lay out the production line or overall manufacturing plant. Two of the most common layouts are the process ...

As professor and director of graduate studies in UB’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Dr. Li Lin specializes in facility layout – in addition to the research areas of computer ...

Walk through almost any manufacturing facility and you’ll see a familiar story: machines placed where they’ve always been, ...

The physical structure of Armstrong Pumps – a producer of HVAC, plumbing and fire safety systems – is a patchwork of 12 facilities, gradually amassed since 1967. The resulting environment stifled ...

Analyst Insight: Smart labels provide real-time data that supports better facility layouts, and enhances logistics and inventory management. These state-of-the-art labels are becoming increasingly ...