Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

(Nanowerk News) A major consumer of time and money in the manufacturing of aircraft, motor vehicles, electronic equipment and other products is adapting assembly lines to produce different sizes, ...

Bright Machines discusses how an ECO tool is used to quantify its manufacturing footprint and how the company intelligently automates assembly lines. With physical industries accounting for 75% of U.S ...

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, ...

Ford's defunct Dearborn Assembly Plant (DAP) produced more than six million Mustangs for nearly one-half of its 90-year history before production ended on Monday, May 10, 2004. The 80-plus year-old ...

Boeing is radically revamping how it will build the 777 widebody jet — a plane that still earns it vital profits despite a slowdown in sales and production rate, so it can’t afford to stop the factory ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prolific Machines, a next generation biotechnology company, is emerging from stealth today by announcing their massively oversubscribed Seed and Series A financings, ...

What if you could save tens of thousands of dollars while creating a production system tailored precisely to your needs? Imagine bypassing the hefty $14,000–$20,000 price tag of commercial assembly ...

Lean manufacturing seeks to make clear what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean is clearly not a fixed-point objective; accelerating global market competition demands operational flexibility ...