Articles Tagged with ''manufacturing history''

To celebrate ASSEMBLY magazine's golden anniversary, here's a year-by-year look at how things have changed, evolved and stayed the same over the last 50 years. The timeline focuses on engineering achievements, business trends and manufacturing milestones.

During the last 50 years, ASSEMBLY magazine has witnessed numerous events, trends and issues that have dramatically changed the face of American manufacturing. To celebrate ASSEMBLY's golden anniversary, we have identified 10 mega trends that, for better or worse, have shaped today's manufacturing landscape and will continue to shape the future.

Steam locomotive building was a labor-intensive process.

Thousands of coopers once mass-produced millions of wood casks.

Mechanical power transmission required a maze of whirring devices.

Ford has always been at the leading edge of new technology.

Many principles of lean manufacturing trace their roots to the man from Dearborn.

For many years, it was the epicenter of the manufacturing world.