GE Appliances' first in-house water filter manufacturing operation includes fully automated assembly and packaging, robotic pick-and-place systems guided by machine vision, 100 percent in-line leak ...

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 ...

Designed to support high-load applications and scalable automation architectures, the new VTU enables manufacturers and ...

People do incredible things with Lego bricks. They’re a powerful tool to turn any number of ideas into something real and functional. Cars have always been popular Lego products, but a machine that ...

According to a new report from The Information, Apple has ordered managers to reduce the headcount of workers on the assembly line for the iPhone, particularly the final assembly lines. Apple ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s obsession with using robots to build cars is to blame for Tesla Inc.’s (TSLA) production setbacks and out of control cash burn, analysts at Bernstein have warned. In a research note, ...

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 line will be upgradable to cell sizes between 158mm to 210mm (M3 to M12) and up to 15BB. Image: Mondragon Assembly. Solar PV equipment provider Mondragon Assembly has received an order from BVG ...

Lego Mindstorm robots aren’t anything new. That said, Lego robots that might one day replace line workers at a factory (a la the car industry), that is certainly something I’ve never seen before.