PARIS—Airbus may add another assembly line for the new A350 wide-body jet to meet rising demand. With more than 600 orders placed for the jet, Airbus is considering adding capacity.
If there’s a “ground zero” for tractor manufacturing, it’s Deere’s assembly plant in Waterloo, IA. The multi-building operation includes a foundry, a drive train assembly line, an engine assembly line and a final assembly line.
Agricultural engineers around the world are developing robotic tractors. Autonomous vehicles equipped with state-of-the-art computers, lasers, sensors, GPS systems and machine vision technology are closer to reality than most people realize.
ANN ARBOR, MI—Ergonomics consutling firm Humantech has developed an app for the iPhone that enables engineers to determine the NIOSH recommended weight limit for a specific job or task.
