The Supreme Court of Japan has issued a decision which made significant changes to how product-by-process claims are handled by the Japanese Patent Office. The decision makes Japanese law on ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This is my second post in my product leadership series. Today I’m chatting with Ben Foster, VP product at Opower. For those who don’t know the ...

In an effort to make your production line more efficient, look at the different ways to lay out the production line or overall manufacturing plant. Two of the most common layouts are the process ...

The global digital economy creates a variety of internal and external factors that increase challenges in new product introduction (NPI). Products are becoming more complex, life cycles are getting ...

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 ...

Process development is the exercise of creating new and improved manufacturing methods, optimizing them in terms of time and financial efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance and product ...

The pace of technological innovation is faster than ever before. From product development to digital transformation, companies are creating and implementing technology at a rate that has only ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you had to pick three areas that have yielded the greatest return on investment of your time and money, without a doubt they’d be your ...

Many companies use some type of system to determine the minimum value of produced products. Process costing is an allocation system companies use to allocate cost for homogeneous items produced by a ...