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No matter what type of product is being assembled, conveyors are an essential ingredient of mass production.

Build or buy? Manufacturing engineers must answer that question with every automation project.

John Deere & Co. (Moline, IL) set a company goal to reduce the cost of parts purchased by its major equipment divisions.

When the BMW plant in Dingolfing, Germany, needed sensors to inspect formed parts for its 7-series automobiles, the automaker turned to SICK (Minneapolis).

Mecafi (Chatellerault, France) is a contract machine shop specializing in precision, high-speed machining and surface treatment of parts made of aluminum and magnesium alloys, as well as titanium, cast iron and other hard materials.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun construction on a new research facility devoted to nanotechnology.

Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology enables full-color, full-motion flat-panel displays with a level of brightness and sharpness not possible with other technologies.

If you overrun that firm, fixed price, you eat the difference, unless you can convince the contracting officer-or your local politician-that you really deserve more.

Printing electronic circuits on sheets of plastic may offer a low-cost technique for manufacturing thin-film transistors for flexible displays.

In the inimitable words of Yogi Berra, it's déja vu all over again. One year ago, we wrote on this page "The world's greatest deliberative body, a.k.a. the U. S. Senate, has labored mightily and brought forth failure." The issue then was medical liability, the Patients First Act of 2003. The issue now was the Class Action Fairness Act