The world was forever changed in 1913, when Henry Ford launched his first assembly line for automobiles. The time to build a car went from more than 12 hours down to about two and half hours. Other ...

As the human race has advanced, we've made the process of creating products extremely efficient. Assembly line factories litter the planet's landscape, mass producing items piece by piece and ...

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, ...

Ford’s defunct Dearborn Assembly Plant (DAP) produced more than six million Mustangs for nearly one-half of its 90-year history before production ended on Monday, May 10, 2004. The 80-plus year-old ...

Some joint-design considerations are universal; others vary with the assembly methods used. Each joining technique has particular design requirements, while certain joint requirements may suggest a ...

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 ...

People do incredible things with Lego bricks. They’re a powerful tool to turn any number of ideas into something real and functional. Cars have always been popular Lego products, but a machine that ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot. Back then ...

It’s little more than a crumbling ruin now, a decrepit collection of brick buildings in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Motown, but the old Highland Park assembly plant was once the site of an ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Bibhakar Pandey, vice president of ...