Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk may be ready to disrupt the traditional automotive assembly line manufacturing process with a new patent revealed ahead of the company's robotaxi day. What ...

The owners of Inline Tube restore a muscle car every year. While each project serves as a rolling advertisement for the company's line of restoration parts, John and James Kryta also use these cars to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...