Although the U.S. chemical industry has suffered unusually severe job losses as a result of the Great Recession, a few safe harbors still offer shelter from the economic storms. Biotech firms, for ...

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 ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...