Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk may be ready to disrupt the traditional automotive assembly line manufacturing process with a new patent revealed ahead of the company's robotaxi day. What ...

The fully flexible, reconfigurable Intelligent Island Manufacturing System (I²MS) supports high-mix manufacturing, enables ...

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 ...

The infusion of technology into the medical field yields groundbreaking and life-saving medical devices, which, in turn, presents new considerations for manufacturers due to device development's ...

Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Sviat Dulianinov The AI ...

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 ...

Taking a page from the natural process by which patterns are formed in nature on seashells and snowflakes, IBM announced on May 3 its ability to form trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums ...

The medical device and life sciences industry must meet stringent regulations for quality and product consistency, making process control a critical issue. All materials and manufacturing ...

As the core technology used in modern electronics manufacturing, surface-mount technology (SMT) assembly density is increasing, the number of pins is increasing, and the pitch is decreasing. In ...