In recognition of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Manufacturing Day 2021, let’s take a look at more than a century of advances in automotive manufacturing at Ford Motor Co. Ford founder ...

Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...

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 ...

When Ford opened its Chicago plant in February 1924 on the banks of the Calumet River in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side, it was the dawn of the automobile age and the mass ...

FRAMINGHAM - It was more than 30 years ago - in February 1989 - that the General Motors assembly plant in Framingham closed, putting 2,100 people out of work. Some left Massachusetts to work in other ...

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, ...

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 ...

The last 747 won’t carry passengers but will be used as a freight aircraft. After 54 years of production, the most recognizable and iconic commercial aircraft is fading into the sunset as Boeing ...

A Michigan-based company is putting a new wrinkle on the decades-old concept of using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) on the factory floor. Combining a battery-free design with a smart electronic ...