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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...