President Donald Trump has said that automakers can avoid his tariffs by simply moving production to American plants. But ...

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Should a custom fabricator adopt or adapt lean manufacturing principles?

A board is expected to not just examine the budget of that ad buy but also weigh long-term financial plans, plus their ultimate fiduciary duty to investors.

W. Edwards Deming’s 14 principles transformed manufacturing by emphasizing quality, efficiency and continuous improvement. His ideas weren’t just about improving production lines—they were about ...

Brazilian planemaker Embraer is considering establishing a final assembly line for its KC-390 military cargo aircraft in ...

In 1913, they came together in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale manufacturing. Ford produced cars at a record-breaking rate. That meant he could lower the price and still ...

To reduce costs and increase production of his most successful automobile — the Model T — Henry Ford borrowed a tactic from the meatpacking industry and implemented the assembly line in his ...

Large numbers of the same goods are produced continuously in this production process. There is often an opportunity for a high level of automation on a flow production assembly line.