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, ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prolific Machines, a next generation biotechnology company, is emerging from stealth today by announcing their massively oversubscribed Seed and Series A financings, ...

Those of us who build our own electronics should have some idea of the process used to assemble modern surface-mount printed circuit boards. Whether we hand-solder, apply paste with a syringe, use a ...

Seven weeks of construction, 38,000 square metres of emptied space, 100 heavy machinery units (robots and assistance equipment), and 400 redeployed workstations were ...

On a rare look inside one of Europe’s most disciplined yacht factories, MIN discovers how Cranchi's assembly-line thinking, ...

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

Mori Seiki uses an auto-campsite assembly system where machines remain stationary while parts and labor come to them. A new machining plant at Mori Seiki’s Chiba, Japan, facility manufactures the ...

A production line (or assembly line) is a sequential set of procedures, most commonly taking place in a factory, that leads to the completed production of an object. From our morning news briefing to ...

The start-up Prolific Machines has raised $42 million to develop a cell-based meat manufacturing platform that it describes as an assembly line for biology. The company hopes to bring down the cost of ...

The way we work is in constant evolution, usually changing gradually, but occasionally leaping forward in bursts of swift progress. We are currently in the middle of a historically significant ...