American companies employed more than 33 million workers in 2009 at general manufacturing firms that produced approximately $4 billion in products, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Manufacturing ...

If Boeing’s latest plan succeeds, a single mishandled job will have prompted some of the manufacturer’s most fundamental production-line process changes in decades. That job was supposed to have fixed ...

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 ...