Does APS work in process industries?The answer may appear to be self-evident. APS is hot news in the manufacturing arena and is attracting well-deserved interest, so why the question?...
Well; primarily because a lot of the excitement about APS has been generated by companies that are seen as having traditionally served discrete, rather than process, manufacturers. Is there a significant difference? When considering APS, I think that there is because process-manufacturing problems can be different from discrete manufacturing problems. Some of these problems, in no particular order, are:...