American companies employed more than 33 million workers in 2009 at general manufacturing firms that produced approximately $4 billion in products, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Manufacturing ...

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...

A production line (or assembly line) is a sequential set of procedures, most commonly taking place in a factory, that leads to the completed production of an object. From our morning news briefing to ...