The moving assembly line was created 100 years ago to answer demand for the Model T. By 1927%2C Ford was able to build a Model T every 24 seconds Production to increase from 6 million to 8 million ...

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 ...

Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...

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 ...

Airbus intends to finalise readiness of jigs and tools on its A350 final assembly line over the next six months in order to handle the manufacture of the freighter variant of the twinjet type.

Airbus Helicopters is to open a new production line for the H145 at its facility in Columbus, Mississippi sized to build up to 16 of the light-twins each year. At present the airframer manufactures ...