Assembly Breaking News

Embraer Breaks Ground on Florida Assembly Plant

Embraer broke ground last week on its first U.S. aircraft assembly plant and customer center at Florida's Melbourne International Airport. Present at the ceremony were Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Melbourne City Mayor Harry Goode, and other distinguished State and local officials manning ceremonial shovels, along with Embraer President and CEO Frederico Fleury Curado.

The facility will be dedicated to the Brazilian planemaker’s executive jet business and is scheduled for completion in 2010. When full capacity is reached, the facility will produce up to eight Phenom business jets will be produced every month.

GE Aerospace is Investing Over $650 Million in Manufacturing in 2024

Manufacturers Test Humanoid Robots in Factories

Update Report: 2013 Assembly Plant of the Year — Northrop Grumman Corp.

Events

May 1, 2024

The ASSEMBLY Show South

ASSEMBLY is thrilled to return to the Music City Center in Nashville, TN for The ASSEMBLY Show SOUTH on May 1-2, 2024. This is a booming time for manufacturing and the U.S. South is right in the heart of the action. According to ASSEMBLY’s most recent annual capital spending survey, the South is projected to account for 31 percent of total spending this year, marking the fifth straight year this region has accounted for at least 30 percent of capital spending in the U.S.

May 14, 2024

How to Drive Product Innovation With Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.

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