New integration and patterning schemes used in 3D memory and logic devices have created manufacturing and yield challenges. Industrial focus has shifted from the scaling of predictable unit processes ...

Flexible process control software allows machines from ficonTEC to be more than just the sum of their parts. ficonTEC has always maintained a distinctive modular approach to machine design, with this ...

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

Optimization seeks to find the best. It could be to design a process that minimizes capital or maximizes material conversion, to choose operating conditions that maximize throughput or minimize waste, ...

As decarbonization and energy transition efforts gather momentum across the global industrial and manufacturing complex, specialist process software firm AspenTech (NASDAQ: AZPN) is "uniquely ...

Plant optimization software may be outside of the conventional definition of project management, but when the project itself is optimizing a given power plant, optimization software becomes a critical ...