Assembly Breaking News

Nissan, Tesla Get Federal Loans

WASHINGTON-With Tuesday’s announcement of a $465 million federal loan to jump-start production of fuel-efficient cars, Tesla Motors (San Carlos, CA) ensured its survival and helped raise the Bay Area’s stature as a hotbed of green innovation. The company will spend some of that money to open a $100 million advanced battery and powertrain manufacturing facility in the Bay Area.MORE

In the Southeast, the federal government also awarded a $1.6 billion loan to Nissan North America to manufacture electric vehicles and build a new battery factory in Smyrna, TN.

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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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