Using interchangeable parts meant making the individual pieces of the car the same every time ... In 1913, they came together in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale manufacturing.

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk may be ready to disrupt the traditional automotive assembly line manufacturing process with a new patent revealed ahead of the company's robotaxi day.

and it does away with having a car (or a rectangular “box”) roll down a traditional assembly line past various stations where parts are added on. What Tesla plans to do instead is assemble ...

Scania said it reached a milestone by integrating reused components on its main assembly line in Sweden. The remanufactured ...