The startup is going for a traditional assembly process where the bodies go through several stations to be kitted out.

An assembly line conjures up images of massive conveyors rapidly churning out endless product units, but most assembly lines start much smaller than that, and growing manufacturers should know the ...

Since 1981, Chevrolet's Bowling Green production plant has had one singular focus: building the Chevrolet Corvette. But in those 41 years, things have changed down in the Kentucky facility — processes ...

Over a century ago, Henry Ford’s assembly line helped mass-produce the Model T, setting a new standard for how to manufacture vehicles. Now, at its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky, the Ford ...

To understand the significance of unboxed assembly, let's first consider its historical roots. The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in 1913, revolutionized car production, slashing assembly ...

Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

Airbus executives confirmed Monday that it will raise a third aircraft assembly line in Mobile over the next few years, but there’s more: 1,000 new jobs on the new line, with new training programs ...

There's a race to build more vehicles more efficiently, with Ford, Tesla and others trying to revamp the way cars are made Henry Ford sparked an industrial revolution with the automobile assembly line ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane March 19, 2018 2018-03-17T18:15:44-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e15/20180317181858002_hd.jpgJoshua Freeman, history professor at ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot. Back then ...

Airbus has confirmed that it will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new A220 assembly line in Mobile on Wednesday, Jan. 16. The event, which will not be open to the public, is largely symbolic.