3M has teamed up with General Motors on something that has never been done before in automotive manufacturing: automating paint repair on a moving production line. GM is using 3M’s Finesse-it™ Robotic ...

Louisville, Ky. — Ford Motor Co. is making a "bet" that a $2 billion investment in Louisville Assembly Plant to make a $30,000 midsize electric truck and abandon the traditional moving assembly line ...

Sometimes, you just need to throw away the rulebook that you wrote a century ago. Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jim Farley said the company’s $2 billion investment in manufacturing in Louisville to ...

Ford Motor Co., which famously popularized the assembly line, has joined Tesla Inc. and other EV makers around the world in a race to find a different, cheaper way to make a lot of cars, and fast. The ...

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

As part of its much-hyped presentation in Louisville, Kentucky that Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said would be a "Model T moment," the Blue Oval has announced what it calls the Ford Universal EV ...

Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley contends that the automaker ...

1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...

There's a race to build more vehicles more efficiently, with Ford, Tesla and others trying to revamp the way cars are made Henry Ford sparked an industrial revolution with the automobile assembly line ...