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 British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

UK ingredients maker Ulrick & Short is extending its line of clean label starches with the addition of a cold swelling starch that the company says will offer a stability and thickening solution for ...

Schneider Electric recently debuted factory upgrades that it claims make its Lexington, KY, factory the first smart factory in the United States. The factory uses technology like augmented reality to ...

Inside the Factory is back… this time with a brand-new presenter, Paddy McGuinness! Paddy McGuinness worked in factories as a teenager, cleaning machines for a Saturday job. Now as the new presenter ...

The Royal Mint has started extracting gold embedded in old phones and TVs to make commemorative coins and jewellery in what has been hailed as a "world first". The UK's coinmaker has opened a factory ...