Ford’s defunct Dearborn Assembly Plant (DAP) produced more than six million Mustangs for nearly one-half of its 90-year history before production ended on Monday, May 10, 2004. The 80-plus year-old ...

An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. In most cases, a manufacturing assembly line is a ...

As the human race has advanced, we've made the process of creating products extremely efficient. Assembly line factories litter the planet's landscape, mass producing items piece by piece and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

But whatever the motivation, this is an impressive and obviously very well engineered machine. Even the lighting is well considered. It’s almost as if it were made for show… Now, any self-respecting ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot. Back then ...

It’s little more than a crumbling ruin now, a decrepit collection of brick buildings in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Motown, but the old Highland Park assembly plant was once the site of an ...

We’re not completely sure why [Fraens] needs to label so many glass bottles at home. Perhaps he’s brewing his own beer, or making jams. Whatever the reason is, it was justification enough to build an ...