A recent wordworking project has given me a greater appreciation of assembly line challenges. Has a home project ever informed your work in the assembly plant?
Hasbro wants to replace one of the tokens for the classic Monopoly board game. I think it should pick a token that celebrates the proud history of U.S. manufacturing.
A Siemens gas turbine is 36 feet long and weighs 280 tons—and yet its parts are machined to tolerances of a few thousandths of an inch. ASSEMBLY magazine's editor-in-chief goes behind the scenes to see how this engineering marvel is made.
Reading one blogger's criticism of ASSEMBLY magazine, I wonder if he’s allowed anger and personal antipathy toward Whirlpool to cloud his judgment. He seems to be confusing the issues of lean manufacturing and outsourcing.