Toyota Motor Corp. plans to expand its U.S. operations by building a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for a new ...

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 ...

Sometimes, you just need to throw away the rulebook that you wrote a century ago. Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jim Farley said the company’s $2 billion investment in manufacturing in Louisville to ...

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 ...

To understand the significance of unboxed assembly, let's first consider its historical roots. The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in 1913, revolutionized car production, slashing assembly ...

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 ...

Manufacturers usually need to track the manufacturing process from production to delivery not only to assure the quality of the finished products but also to reduce waste and inefficiencies that are ...

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 stakes appear to be high for the company's recovery strategy.

Boeing has logged more than 1,200 orders for the 737 MAX 10, the largest variant of its narrow-body commercial jet. Boeing Corp. reportedly will install a new production line in Everett, Wash., for ...