Ford Motor Co., which famously popularized the assembly line, has joined Tesla Inc. and other EV makers around the world in a race to find a different, cheaper way to make a lot of cars, and fast. The ...

CATL has become the first battery manufacturer to deploy humanoid robots at scale on the assembly line, replacing humans in ...

On November 11, 2025, Aptera Motors Corp., a solar mobility company focused on ultra-efficient transportation, announced it has begun building its validation vehicle assembly line, an important step ...

Sometimes, you just need to throw away the rulebook that you wrote a century ago. Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jim Farley said the company’s $2 billion investment in manufacturing in Louisville to ...

To understand the significance of unboxed assembly, let's first consider its historical roots. The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in 1913, revolutionized car production, slashing assembly ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

Toyota's largest manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, is investing over $1.8 billion in new technology. A new system called K-flex allows the plant to build SUVs, hybrids, EVs and sedans on a ...

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 ...

Assembly line systems form the backbone of modern manufacturing, and the optimisation of their balancing and sequencing is critical to achieving enhanced productivity, reduced costs, and improved ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

President Trump's visit to a Ford factory turned contentious when a worker yelled an insult, prompting a defiant gesture from ...