assembly line efficiency

Lean Layout Do’s and Don’ts

Flexibility and flow are critical to efficient assembly line design

May 2, 2019

Optimizing flow and minimizing waste are two of the basic elements of lean manufacturing. Those concepts also play a critical role in laying out assembly lines.

MIT Focuses on Human-Robot Interaction

Austin Weber

September 3, 2015

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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are studying how robots and humans can work closer together on assembly lines.

Chrysler Redesigns Assembly Line to Boost Productivity

September 25, 2014

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WARREN, MI—Chrysler engineers revamped more than 350 workstations at a 76-year-old assembly plant here to boost production of the popular Ram pickup truck.