The fully flexible, reconfigurable Intelligent Island Manufacturing System (I²MS) supports high-mix manufacturing, enables ...

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 ...

Back in the late 1990s, a traveler from Lebanon to London would have noticed something interesting about telecommunications in the two countries, while many people in Lebanon owned a mobile phone, ...

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 ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pioneering the next frontier of manufacturing through a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and industrial robotics, Symbio Robotics today announced its ...

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 ...

BOONVILLE − A new Kawasaki Motors manufacturing facility has opened up in Boonville. The facility started mass production of equipment on Feb. 28 with about 80 employees. Kawasaki now has two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lockheed Martin plans to establish a C-130J Super Hercules final assembly line in India. This facility could become a global ...

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, ...