Installing a successful management control system in a small business requires planning and the involvement of the managers and affected employees. When managers have the financial, production, sales ...

Every business, regardless of its size and industry, needs to have a financial controls policy in place. Its role is to provide guidance on the keeping of financial accounts and records, payments, ...

This article overviews some of the benefits and methods of state-based control as it applies to the models defined by the ISA106, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations standards ...

Every enterprise-wide IT project implementation must be undertaken only along with a robust and detailed change management procedure. Failure to do so could lead to disastrous consequences such as a ...

Discussion of controllers in the continuous process industries typically centers on distributed control systems (DCSs). However, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) play as important a role in the ...

Change control can bring vast benefits to your IT environment if properly implemented and executed. Read these tips to help improve the process. Image: iStock/Ridofranz When a production environment ...