It’s been just over 100 years since Henry Ford and his team at Highland Park assembly plant launched the world’s greatest contribution to manufacturing – the first moving assembly line. It simplified ...

In our last blog post we talked about how companies are looking to maximize capacity utilization for every dollar and square foot. Having been burned by the last recession, their new manufacturing ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

French startup Inbolt and the world's largest industrial robotics company Fanuc are launching what they describe as a“manufacturing breakthrough” enabling Fanuc robots to tackle one of the most ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...

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 ...

The design stage of a product’s life cycle is arguably one of the most crucial decision making periods, as 70 to 80 percent of the overall manufacturing cost can be projected at this stage. Engineers ...

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 ...

The Airbus A320 family aircraft fuselage structure assembly line will get some help — in the form of 20 robots. The airframer inaugurated the new “highly automated” assembly line for the narrowbody ...