Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

The authors discuss the advantages of microreactors and flow chemistry for various reaction types in achieving improved process economics and reaction efficiency. This article is part of PharmTech's ...

Flow chemistry—in which reagents course through a series of reactors to form new compounds—allows chemists to build molecules in a fast and efficient assembly-line-like way. But with each additional ...

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...