Lean manufacturing seeks to make clear what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean is clearly not a fixed-point objective; accelerating global market competition demands operational flexibility ...

The coronavirus pandemic is a case study in reacting flexibly to productivity disruptions—one that highlights the value of connected manufacturing and logistics during exceptional times. To survive, ...

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 ...

The machine-learning feature highlights units that appear defective. Photo Credit: Instrumental When Anna-Katrina Shedletsky was working as an engineer at Apple, she often found herself traveling ...