Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

In just 70 years, material handling in the automotive industry has gone through numerous transformations, going from assembly lines manned by individual workers, to assembly lines of modern material ...

More than 50% of total production time is spent on assembly or fastening. However, mechanical fastening usually represents less than 5% of the total in-place or assembled cost of a product. When ...

Automakers are investing in new technology that enables them to produce large castings. The goal is to consolidate parts, ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk often refers to the automobile factory as "the machine that builds the machine," but there are plenty of human workers involved in even the most highly automated plants. They ...

Klaus Brinkrode, Sales Manager of Med. Tech Device Assembly & Labeling at Syntegon, explains their RMA machine and how it improves auto-injector assembly. The RMA is being used for R&D and small batch ...