An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. In most cases, a manufacturing assembly line is a ...

Building hardware is rarely a straight path from idea to finished product. Most teams begin with a rough concept, test ...

What’s more sustainable? Using acres of land, water and energy to grow plants that produce minuscule quantities of natural sweeteners; or making them via a fermentation process using a microbe that’s ...

Professor Shota Atsumi, UC Davis Department of Chemistry, led a team that found a new way to coax microbes into making allulose, a potential substitute for table sugar. The work was conducted in ...

The process involves converting the feedstock into a gas, which is then converted into liquid hydrocarbons using a series of chemical reactions. The advantages of the FT process are that it can use a ...

I think most would agree that the Toyota Production System (TPS) has revolutionized business around the world, particularly manufacturing. What makes the TPS so revolutionary? I worked in management ...

Another wave of lockdowns will renew concerns about supply chains and shortages. As a grower of fresh mushrooms, for decades I experienced the difficulties of filling orders during wild fluctuations ...

A "robust, reliable and highly sensitive" tool that quickly and reliably identifies rogue ingredients, even in processed and cooked foods, has been developed by University of Aberdeen scientists. The ...

Byproducts are materials that are created during the production process, in addition to primary products. They typically serve little purpose except for use in ancillary products or recycling, but for ...