The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

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 ...

An assembly line conjures up images of massive conveyors rapidly churning out endless product units, but most assembly lines start much smaller than that, and growing manufacturers should know the ...

A Michigan-based company is putting a new wrinkle on the decades-old concept of using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) on the factory floor. Combining a battery-free design with a smart electronic ...

Pierce Manufacturing's Phase I of the High Flow production line modernizes chassis assembly, boosting capacity, quality and safety through integrated technologies and process ...

Anna Katrina Shedletsky is a former Apple product design engineer who is using her experience to build AI that helps companies streamline manufacturing. Using her hard-earned experience at Apple ...

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter-diameter state-of-the-art telescope designed to operate at submillimeter to millimeter wavelengths for wide field observations and large-area ...

Ford tore up the moving assembly line concept and designed a better one, the company's CEO Jim Farley explained to a crowd gathered at Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky for Ford's announcement ...

Following early wins for ONE‑32 with the company’s first ten hyperscaler and AI‑cluster OEM customers, iPronics will ramp up production of SiPh‑based optical circuit switch (OCS) systems to meet ...