Articles by Jennifer Pierce

Multimedia Editor and Host Jennifer Pierce shares highlights from the ASSEMBLY Audible podcast.

February 18-24, 2024 is Engineers Week. As part of its educational efforts to engage students in engineering, DiscoverE.org has downloadable resources such as an assembly line activity. 

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, Germany—According to ETMM, A Bosch representative told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that the company currently expects up to 560 jobs to be cut by the end of 2026.

BOWLING GREEN, KY—The first E-Ray Corvettes have rolled off the assembly line at the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 

LAVA is a Ukrainian-Canadian company founded in 1984 that manufactures in Canada. In 2014, LAVA shifted to designing and building hardware for adapters that can do power and data simultaneously to tablet devices, turning them into much more B2B accessible devices and conditioning their batteries to get about six years of life.

In December 2020, GE Appliances announced its new $80 million dishwasher manufacturing line at its Appliance Park plant. The state-of-the-art assembly line and product investment added more than 280 new jobs at GE's Louisville, Kentucky facility.

In July 2022, Panasonic announced it would build a new lithium-ion battery plant in DeSoto, Kansas, a small town located right off a major highway. The plant is being built for the rapidly growing electric vehicle market. It's estimated the project will bring 4,000 permanent jobs to the state, and according to Kansas Department of Commerce officials, it is the most significant economic development project in state history. 

For a product to be assembled successfully, it’s essential to move the right parts, to the right place, in the right orientation, at the right time. 

For a product to be assembled successfully, it’s essential to move the right parts, to the right place, in the right orientation, at the right time. Motion control technology makes that happen. Here’s a sampling of the latest technology.

Every day in more than 45 countries, photovoltaic modules designed and manufactured by First Solar go to work converting sunlight into clean, reliable electricity. First Solar is the only American company ranked among the world’s top 10 solar manufacturers. The company’s headquarters is in Tempe, AZ, but its roots are in Ohio, where it operates the largest solar manufacturing footprint in the Western Hemisphere. More than half of First Solar’s 2,700 U.S. employees are located in Ohio.