In our modem society, all products and services are based on the use of energy and material resources. While the products and services of stone-age hunter-gatherers or a primitive village economy may ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing coverage of ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Today’s engineers are facing a dramatic shift happening in industries like automotive, aerospace, and electronics. Competitive pressures to bring products to market faster, slash development costs, ...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Industrial Ecology (IE) represent complementary methodologies that together facilitate a holistic understanding of the environmental performance and sustainability of ...

Engineering designs for functional safety systems used in the process industry sector are typically thorough, detailed, and follow a stringent safety life-cycle process. In a non-digitized execution ...

Alarm systems are critical for facilitating process safety, ensuring efficient operations, and maintaining quality. Alarm management has been broadly implemented in the process industries over the ...

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Creating a project life cycle and system analysis life cycle can help you chart the future of your business. Project life cycles refer to a sequence of events that must occur to complete a project or ...