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, ...

The new 737 Max final assembly line in Everett, Washington, will serve as a catalyst for increasing Max production to 52 jets per month.

Mercedes-Benz has introduced a new kind of production worker to its assembly line—Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot. Standing ...

EVERETT, Wash.--The 787 Dreamliner program may be three years behind schedule and battling a legacy of delays, but that isn't stopping Boeing from building the next-generation airplanes one after ...

Opinion: we can take several important lessons about innovation that are relevant today from the history of the assembly line Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile, once said that "history is more or ...

On October 7, 1913, the moving assembly line was born at the factory of the Ford Motor Company in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park. Henry Ford's invention allowed workers to build a Model T from ...