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AT&T’s private brand exchange (PBX) phone systems, manufactured in Denver, are customized for individual customers.

Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories will jointly receive $75.8 million to construct the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).

As part of the process of manufacturing power steering pumps for the automotive industry, a metal bushing is pressed with a measured force into the case.

Digital Optics Corp. (Charlotte, NC) needed to expand its component production requirements for several customers in the telecommunication and data communication industries.

Whirlpool needed to service its residential, over-the-counter microwaves quickly, and it wanted to do this with only one service technician.

Once upon a time, there was an important job to be done at Mammoth Manufacturing. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it. Nobody did it.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s Stratford, CT, manufacturing facility is now using an inventory management system from NYF Corp. (Paramus, NJ).

Manufacturing companies have traditionally been much more focused on making and marketing products than on what to do with them at the end of their useful lives. Disposing of old cars, dead appliances and obsolete electronics products was, for the most part, someone else’s problem.

Hamilton Sundstrand (Windsor Locks, CT) is a frequent flyer of sorts. The company’s products have accumulated hundreds of thousands of air miles, traversing the globe for almost 60 years.

A firm just can’t operate efficiently with an empty warehouse, regardless of how hard it wants to practice just-in-time manufacturing.