Having successfully integrated 3D printing into its production process, automotive giant Nissan now has the proven capability to expand its use of the technology in the UK. The car manufacturer has ...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UFb3TkC7OMo] The biggest problem in 3D printing is mass production. While prototyping one or two ...

In assembly lines, robots are programmed to perform a single task with high precision. Consider the example of automobile assembly, depicted in the picture above. Cars move along a conveyor belt, ...

It’s been just over 100 years since Henry Ford and his team at Highland Park assembly plant launched the world’s greatest contribution to manufacturing – the first moving assembly line. It simplified ...

Nature has evolved highly sophisticated machinery for organic synthesis. An archetypal example is its machinery for polyketide synthesis where a simple thioester is passed from one module to another, ...

Occupational health and safety has been further enhanced on the assembly floor at BMW through the use of customized flexible finger cots fabrication from thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) using 3D ...

In 2017, when Tesla announced incredibly ambitious Model 3 production targets of 5,000 Model 3s per week and the beginning of “production hell,” analysts were wary. But Elon Musk insisted he could ...

An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. In most cases, a manufacturing assembly line is a ...