When introducing new vehicle models, each launch can demand extensive reconfiguration of existing production lines. Timing is ...

Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

First assembly line in Highland Park, MIch. DETROIT - It began on Oct. 7, 1913, when engineers constructed a crude system using a rope and winch to pull a Ford Model T past 140 workers in a sprawling ...

Boeing Co. is preparing to open a new 737 MAX production line this summer in Everett, Wash., expanding single-aisle ...

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 ...

Manufacturers usually need to track the manufacturing process from production to delivery not only to assure the quality of the finished products but also to reduce waste and inefficiencies that are ...

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 ...

The new line in Hamburg, Germany, combines fuselage shells into sections, and assembles individual sections into aircraft fuselages. Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line ...

Sometimes, you just need to throw away the rulebook that you wrote a century ago. Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jim Farley said the company’s $2 billion investment in manufacturing in Louisville to ...

Boeing operates three assembly lines for 737 MAX aircraft at Renton, Wash. A fourth line will start assembly this summer in Everett, Wash. Boeing reconfirmed that its new 737 MAX production line will ...