20 robots configured to build A321LR sections, using laser-guided positioning and digital data acquisition Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line for A320 series narrow-body ...

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, ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot. Back then ...

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 ...

FREMONT, Calif. — When Phil Verzola got home from work at 2 a.m., he woke up his wife to say his auto assembly line was about to shut down because of the West Coast port lockout. "Honey, we need to ...

FRAMINGHAM - It was more than 30 years ago - in February 1989 - that the General Motors assembly plant in Framingham closed, putting 2,100 people out of work. Some left Massachusetts to work in other ...

A new $1 coin for Michigan, recently released as part of a U.S. Mint series celebrating innovations from across the country, depicts autoworkers on the assembly line, a design that beat out competing ...

A former Daimler assembly line worker has been appointed to the Volkswagen supervisory board. Conny Schoenhardt succeeded Birgit Dietze as an employee representative on the board. She already held the ...

An auto assembly line worker from Detroit just delivered the performance of his life on “The Voice," even getting John Legend to rise out of his seat for him. 28-year old Rio Souma was born and raised ...