Glimpses of How it's made, 6 Minute Manufacturing

ptorrone writes "We (MAKE Magazine) have released a free 35 minute film for download - "Glimpses of How it's made" - a tour of how many things in our world are made, each segment is 6 minutes (hence the full name "Six-Minute Manufacturing Glimpses of How it's made"). Learn about, get inspired, and see how stuff is made: LectroSonics (wireless microphones), Rose's Southwest Papers (paper converting), Accurate Custom (Injection Molding), Mega Corp. (water haulage equipment), Earthstone International (recycled glass abrasives), Butterman Tool (tool and die), Eclipse Aviation (small jet aircraft), Optical Insights (optical equipment). Downloads and more info."

Comments

Re:6 Minutes

[AKAImBatman]

Only 6 minutes? Is that long enough to really see how this stuff is made?

You'd be surprised. Many manufacturing processes are quite fast. That's why they can turn out thousands of widgets, sprockets, and cogs each day. Most of the time is usually spent in things like heating or rolling, processes where you don't need to record the entire thing to video. These are usually pipelined in such a way that the time taken has little to no impact on producing a widget per minute.

Of course, there are still some processes (such as making snow boards) which have several manual steps. These take much longer and have fairly low production, but they're also highly expensive products sought out for their hand-crafted quality.

hello

[BlackShirt]

why I have to download it? why not use a page like google video with flash? oh gosh.