Now that it’s “the future,” and many jobs are being automated, it seems it’s only a matter of time before the entire pizza-making process works sans humans. Here, for example, is a prototype “pizza ...

Smart factories represent an evolution from traditional manufacturing, transforming automated processes into fully digital, interconnected, and adaptive production ecosystems. Leveraging advanced ...

Factory overhead is any cost other than direct materials or direct labor, such as electricity, incurred while manufacturing inventory. Work-in-process inventory is what a company has started ...

The decision was final, and the plan was to construct a new addition to help keep up with market demand. The senior leadership decided that moving the factory and building another factory was cost ...

Every factory since the start of the industrial revolution has shared one very specific trait: tooling sets the identity of the machines, and thus the factory. To create a specific part requires ...

It’s not an easy time to be a manufacturer. Everything from global supply chain issues to inflation to factory worker shortages to geopolitical uncertainty is causing the industry to feel the ...

The availability of low-cost, insanely high-quality PCBs has really changed how we do electronics. Here at Hackaday we see people ditching home fabrication with increasing frequency, and going to ...