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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Rivian is preparing to start production of its R2 compact crossover soon and is currently setting up the assembly line. Meanwhile, a pilot line builds pre-production R2 vehicles for testing before ...

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 ...

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, ...

EVERETT — The last Everett-built Boeing 787 Dreamliner has rolled off the assembly line at the Paine Field factory, marking the end of the model’s manufacture in Washington. Production of the 787 is ...

Owen Kowalski motions me over toward some fragile-looking glass while he explains how I can get through the next half-hour without breaking things and making his day go sour. His red beard gets wide ...