PickVidsBest Manufacturing & industrial processes Videos
The 69 Manufacturing & industrial processes videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 7 intermediate, 61 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a documentary. What they share is that the people and the sequence of events are put back before anyone argues. Channels you will keep seeing include SmarterEveryDay, Autoline Network, Machine Thinking.
The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
Bill Hammack of Engineer Guy explains the engineering behind the aluminum beverage can: why it is cylindrical, how it is manufactured, why it narrows at the top, the double seam, and how the pull tab works.
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
A WIRED Future Cities documentary on Shenzhen, covering its hardware-prototyping culture and shanzhai copycat manufacturing.
Origins of Precision
Machine Thinking traces where mechanical precision comes from, from flat surface plates and the three-plate method up through lathes and early measuring tools.
The Art of Making a Nixie Tube
Dalibor Farny documents the hand manufacture of a nixie tube, from glassblowing to evacuation, with text notes rather than narration.
I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day tries to manufacture a grill scrubber entirely in the United States.
HOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
Destin Sandlin tours United Launch Alliance's rocket factory with CEO Tory Bruno, showing friction stir welding, structural rocket skins and large milled parts.
The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations
An Al Jazeera investigation into Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, featuring current and former engineers who voice safety concerns.
Tearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284
An Autoline After Hours episode where Sandy Munro discusses his complete teardown of the BMW i3, along with automotive journalists.
The $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
Branch Education's animated deep dive into ASML's EUV photolithography machine and how it prints nanometer-scale transistors onto chips.
Tesla Battery Day
Tesla's 2020 Battery Day event, with a company update and a keynote on new cell design, manufacturing, vertical integration and cheaper lithium and materials.
Inside a Huge PCB Factory
Strange Parts tours JLCPCB's large PCB factory in Huizhou, China, walking through the printed circuit board manufacturing process step by step.
The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation
A long Gamers Nexus investigation into how volatile US tariffs affect the computer hardware industry.
The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
Veritasium explains how ASML's EUV lithography machines make the most advanced computer chips, covering the engineering of the light source, mirrors and the supply chain around them.
The 1751 Machine that Made Everything
Machine Thinking argues the 1751 machine, a metal-cutting lathe associated with Vaucanson, triggered the biggest explosion of wealth in history by enabling precise manufacturing of other machines.
America's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
Machine Thinking tells the story of the Cold War Heavy Press Program, the giant forging presses that make parts for aircraft, missiles and turbines.
How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day tours a Kodak factory to show how photographic film is manufactured.
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
Tom Scott visits the USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, where keyers decipher mail images machines cannot read.
Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
Sandy Munro interviews Elon Musk at Boca Chica about Tesla production, mega-castings, seats, structural battery packs and the difficulty of mass production.
An Intro to KiCad – Part 1: How PCBs Are Made | DigiKey
Shawn Hymel of DigiKey introduces KiCad and explains how printed circuit boards are manufactured.
The People's Republic of The Future
Bloomberg's Hello World episode in which Ashlee Vance visits Shenzhen, a hub of electronics manufacturing and cloning.
This Swiss Builder uses NO INSULATION...
Builders Matt Risinger and Jordan Smith visit a Swiss cross-laminated timber factory that makes thick all-wood walls with no traditional insulation and wooden nails instead of glue or chemicals.
Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
Designer Thomas Thwaites describes his attempt to build a toaster from scratch, from mining ore and deriving plastic from oil.
The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288
Destin Sandlin tours a progressive metal stamping factory, showing machines that stamp millions of metal parts and the tooling behind them.
Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
A behind-the-scenes tour of the ILFORD factory in Mobberley, England, showing how black and white film, paper and chemicals are made.