As the human race has advanced, we've made the process of creating products extremely efficient. Assembly line factories litter the planet's landscape, mass producing items piece by piece and ...

The world was forever changed in 1913, when Henry Ford launched his first assembly line for automobiles. The time to build a car went from more than 12 hours down to about two and half hours. Other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some joint-design considerations are universal; others vary with the assembly methods used. Each joining technique has particular design requirements, while certain joint requirements may suggest a ...

The machine-learning feature highlights units that appear defective. Photo Credit: Instrumental When Anna-Katrina Shedletsky was working as an engineer at Apple, she often found herself traveling ...

But whatever the motivation, this is an impressive and obviously very well engineered machine. Even the lighting is well considered. It’s almost as if it were made for show… Now, any self-respecting ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

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 ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Bibhakar Pandey, vice president of ...