By applying cutting-edge tools and production systems, the plant has achieved a 17 percent boost in productivity and a 30 ...

Imagine the day when the packaging machine on the plant floor automatically detects that it needs more materials and it alerts the supplier—ordering and paying for product and scheduling delivery, all ...

Bright Machines Inc., a robotics startup that helps manufacturers more efficiently make products such as servers and batteries, has secured $126 million in fresh funding. The Series C round was ...

“We thought we could do something radically different,” says Bright Machines CEO Amar Hanspal. The radical part of the plan? Power networks of flexible micro-factories in the U.S., which will solve ...

In the early 1970s, a quiet revolution began in American factories. Lathes, drill presses and milling machines—once guided by ...

Chicago — Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude ...

China’s factory activity contracted for the eighth straight month in November, according to an official survey on Sunday, underscoring challenges for the country’s economy despite the U.S.

Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude Stein’s ...