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 ...

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bright Machines discusses how an ECO tool is used to quantify its manufacturing footprint and how the company intelligently automates assembly lines. With physical industries accounting for 75% of U.S ...

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 ...

You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you've heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve ...