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Ford Motor Co.'s (Dearborn, MI) production center in Cuautitlan, Mexico, produces between 300,000 and 400,000 cars and trucks each year.

The Airbus Consortium (Toulouse, France) plant in Bremen, Germany, manufactures wing components such as landing flaps, producing approximately 2.5 million metal parts annually for the entire range of Airbus aircraft.

CHICAGO-The Boeing Co. is predicting that airlines operating out of Asian and Pacific Rim countries will purchase about 7,200 new airplanes worth $770 billion over the next 20 years, making it the largest market outside North America for new commercial airplanes.

The recently published Grippers in Motion: The Fascination of Automated Handling Tasks is both informative and highly readable.

MCLEAN, VA-Companies that design and build custom assembly systems are at the forefront of manufacturing innovation, occupying industry's adventurous fringe.

Activity-based management is a powerful tool that can help focus improvement initiatives on serving the product and customer combinations that account for 80 percent of sales and profits.

Delta robots have been used to assemble bearings, relays and medical devices.

Despite rising energy costs and increased foreign competition, U.S. manufacturers are poised to make significant investments in assembly technology in 2006.

Robots are not without their limitations, and they must be implemented intelligently for manufacturers to reap their full benefits.

New technology and emerging applications boost brazing.