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 ...

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.

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, ...