The moving assembly line was created 100 years ago to answer demand for the Model T. By 1927%2C Ford was able to build a Model T every 24 seconds Production to increase from 6 million to 8 million ...

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 ...

Microorganisms often produce natural products in a step-by-step manner similar to an assembly line. Examples of such enzymes are non-ribosomal peptide synthetases. Researchers have now succeeded in ...