A decade ago, the development of cluster tools in the IC manufacturing industry seemed to herald the end of batch processing systems. Single-wafer, multichamber tools were the wave of the future—they ...

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, ...

Batch processing systems can vary widely in terms of ease of programming and configuration, real-time recipe and ingredients management, and connectivity capabilities for reporting. Batch processing ...

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In batch processing, if costs are not isolated, high-volume customers and products tend to subsidize lower-volume ones. This article reviews different types of batch activities and how they would be ...

Real-time streaming data applications may get all the press, but the reality is that much of the business world still runs in batch mode. As companies grow, so does the volume of management reports ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There are several generally accepted suppositions concerning the cost and benefits of real-time information systems. These suppositions expect ...

The startup's managed, distributed database service is designed to run queries against real-time data in a more cost-efficient manner than batch processing systems. New York-based startup Materialize ...