We have entered the era of Work 4.0, a world of AI augmentation that is forcing us to think differently about the ...

You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you've heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

How has making cars for big auto companies changed, in pay, labor, everyday life and technology? We hear from a former autoworker and a current one. For six days, autoworkers at three plants have been ...

Few schools of thought have had more impact on how I run a business than dynamic work design. The concept was pioneered by friends of mine at MIT, Donald Kieffer and Nelson Repenning. The two spent ...

Walking down the assembly line as the bell dings, marking a lunch break, Ken Semler points to a man carefully sealing the frame of a house with foam as evidence that this factory can build houses ...

The Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force) is parallelly undertaking extensive infrastructural work and training its personnel in the U.S., while officials work on the domestic defense industrial tie ups and ...

At Samsung's mobile-device factory in Gumi, South Korea, roughly three hours away from the country's capital of Seoul, nearly everything is automated. Even the process of putting on the shoe covers ...