The saying, "a man's reach should exceed his grasp," may be inspirational, but it certainly is not ergonomic when considering assembly line work design. Assembly work involves considerable reaching ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

Manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama, has tripled in size since Airbus started manufacturing commercial aircraft in the ...

An assembly line conjures up images of massive conveyors rapidly churning out endless product units, but most assembly lines start much smaller than that, and growing manufacturers should know the ...

Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

It wasn't as complicated as, say, building a passenger jet.But the official opening of mobile's third Airbus assembly line ...

Airbus officially inaugurated a new A320 Family Final Assembly Line (FAL) at its Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley campus, marking ...