Production planning essentially represents the core of the process of manufacturing. The purpose of production planning is to organize resources in order to efficiently manage production costs, time ...

Businesses that manufacture goods often need to calculate rates and efficiencies that tell them whether things are going well. This calculation is relatively straightforward for companies that produce ...

A guide for people who are considering a career in production management in the television industry. TV production management is the art of ensuring a production gets made on budget and on time. It's ...

Mark Goldstein, president and CEO of the film production services company Entertainment Partners, says one role in Hollywood has been in particularly high demand in recent years, and no, it can’t be ...

After years of working in the industry, many actors start production companies of their own. Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, for example, produce some of the titles in which they star. Plan B, ...

Terrestrial ecosystems rely almost exclusively on the sun's energy to support the growth and metabolism of their resident organisms. Plants are quite literally biomass factories powered by sunlight, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

As the number of movie and TV shoots approaches historic lows, insiders are lobbying for fewer restrictions to help bolster Hollywood’s place in the city it calls home. By Winston Cho For years, ...

A Surrey Water-Mill', mid-late 19th century. Young women at Dunsfold Mill in Surrey. From the "Girl's Own Paper". [London] Artist Unknown. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images) Some people falsely ...