Magazines come and magazines go. According to Oxbridge Communications, 113 magazines were launched in North America in 2015, while 35 books folded. In 2016, an astounding 7,216 magazines were available in the United States, compared with 6,809 titles in 2007.
ASSEMBLY was born in October 1958 with the name Assembly & Fastener Engineering. Although its name was later shortened to Assembly Engineering, and subsequently to ASSEMBLY, it was then, and is today, a magazine of ideas and methods: a forum where manufacturing and design engineers can find and share practical knowledge about tools and techniques for joining piece parts into finished products.