You have likely heard the saying “A watched pot never boils.” The idea is that when you’re paying attention to the progress of a process (like the boiling of water), the change seems slower than if ...

On-line monitoring techniques have been under development over the past decades for a variety of applications in process and power industries. In the nuclear power industry, on-line monitoring ...

In the world of computing, Linux stands as a paragon of flexibility and power. Yet, much like a musical instrument, it requires regular tuning to produce its best performance. Through this article, we ...

The semiconductor manufacturing process involves many steps, including, but not limited to, film deposition, photolithography, etching, and chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). Contamination can ...

In the first category, measuring asset performance is intended to answer the question: Are the assets meeting their purpose(s), currently and in the near future? In all cases, the purpose of an asset ...