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 ...

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 production line (or assembly line) is a sequential set of procedures, most commonly taking place in a factory, that leads to the completed production of an object. From our morning news briefing to ...

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, ...

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.