But whatever the motivation, this is an impressive and obviously very well engineered machine. Even the lighting is well considered. It’s almost as if it were made for show… Now, any self-respecting ...

“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 ...

What if you could save tens of thousands of dollars while creating a production system tailored precisely to your needs? Imagine bypassing the hefty $14,000–$20,000 price tag of commercial assembly ...

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 ...

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturers seek to quantify—and improve—plant, manufacturing line and machine-level performance. Lean manufacturing and ...

First assembly line in Highland Park, MIch. DETROIT - It began on Oct. 7, 1913, when engineers constructed a crude system using a rope and winch to pull a Ford Model T past 140 workers in a sprawling ...

(CBS News) Henry Ford introduced one of history's great innovations in October 1913 - the assembly line. The advance transformed the industry worldwide, and the mass-produced Model T helped create the ...

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 ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...