Scott Wilder, a partner at BCG, went in-depth with Business Insider on how the firm is shifting from services to AI-driven ...

Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...

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 ...

Opinion: we can take several important lessons about innovation that are relevant today from the history of the assembly line Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile, once said that "history is more or ...

To borrow a line from Chuck Berry, it goes to show you never can tell. I embarked this week on a bit of historical research, thinking I might find some connections between the factory workers of 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 ...

NO BUSINESS FIGURE casts as long a shadow over the 20th century as Henry Ford. Ford was the godfather of mass production, which, as the century unfolded, became the central organizing principle of ...

On October 7, 1913, the moving assembly line was born at the factory of the Ford Motor Company in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park. Henry Ford's invention allowed workers to build a Model T from ...