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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven weeks of construction, 38,000 square metres of emptied space, 100 heavy machinery units (robots and assistance equipment), and 400 redeployed workstations were ...