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Modern batch processing relies on flexible ISA-88–based software that streamlines recipe creation, coordinates tasks across multiple units and enables efficient execution of multistage production ...

Most enterprise IT operations rely heavily on batch processing operations. The reliance doesn't go away when you move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), yet SOA just means online transaction ...

Arla Foods’ new dairy plant in England provides ample evidence that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Head of engineering Soeren Vonsild describes Arla’s necessity this way. “In this dairy, ...

The earliest business computer systems developed in the 1950s demonstrated their efficiency by processing records in large batches. In the 1960s, equipment makers introduced interactive terminals, ...

Despite the growing momentum behind SOA and real-time integration, many interfaces are still flat file-based and therefore best processed through a batch mode. Nevertheless, there is no de facto or ...

Once upon a time, electronic batch records (EBRs) were simply a means for helping pharmaceutical companies automate away the mountains of paperwork required for maintaining production batch records.