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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 ...

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 ...

Ford tore up the moving assembly line concept and designed a better one, the company's CEO Jim Farley explained to a crowd gathered at Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky for Ford's announcement ...

Over a century ago, Henry Ford’s assembly line helped mass-produce the Model T, setting a new standard for how to manufacture vehicles. Now, at its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky, the Ford ...

November 14, 2006 The moving production line concept was around for more than a century before Henry Ford famously used it to speed output and cut costs and hence transform the automotive industry a ...

Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...