Reflecting on my 30-year career as a project manager, I have come to realize process automation projects have unique challenges, which make them more difficult to execute than other types of projects.

If you think programmed systems have only become popular recently, then you are mistaken. For a long time, people have interacted with mechanized systems, just on a different level than what we see ...

The art and science of project management gives us useful knowledge and powerful tools and techniques to successfully manage complex projects in various areas. Nevertheless, it is necessary for ...

Control narratives translate complex automation logic into accessible language that non-programmers can understand, serving as a shared reference point between operations staff, process engineers and ...

Aligned with Duke Engineering’s Character Forward initiative, Professor Siobhan Oca’s Ethics in Robotics and Automation course (ME 490) challenges students to see beyond technical skills and practice ...

If you want to paint a picture of the typical inclination toward change and flexibility in industrial manufacturing, it might help to call on a few clichés. “Old habits die hard” would work. Or ...