In the automotive industry, combustion engines are still assembled mostly manually. Researchers from Germany are developing procedures and methods to automate assembly processes to continuously ...

LINCOLN, Alabama -- Honda's Alabama plant today marked the opening of a new engine assembly line that the Japanese automaker calls a breakthrough for its operations in North America. The $71.4 million ...

The new line in Hamburg, Germany, combines fuselage shells into sections, and assembles individual sections into aircraft fuselages. Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line ...

Aviation Week's senior editor Guy Norris outlines how Pratt & Whitney is pioneering the use of robotic and automated engine assembly in Singapore as the engine-maker steps up efforts to cut the number ...