Nissan Motor Co.’s state-of-the-art assembly plant in Smyrna, TN, is one of the largest auto factories in the world. The ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot.

The moving assembly line meant the car moved to the employee rather than the other way around. The vehicle was initially pulled into place by a rope — later, a chain — so the car could be ...

While Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company helped shaped modern car production, it wasn't one of his cars that was the first ...

Ford's engineers took the first step towards this goal by designing the Model T, a simple, sturdy car, offering no factory options ... in the first moving assembly line ever used for large ...

If I had been paying better attention, I would have learned a lot more about the factory ... the overwhelming task of producing car parts on the assembly line. More confetti showers for everyone.

Stepping into this VR laboratory, the engineers don headsets, pick up controllers, and are virtually transported to an assembly line inside ... a "digital twin" of the factory.