All machines Page 2
All machines
Page 2 of 5.
Films on page 2
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5:01 Plastics and RecyclingExtrusion blow molding, explained by the machine builder
Extrusion blow molding drops a hot tube of plastic, closes a mold around it and inflates it into a bottle, all in a few seconds. Bekum explains the parison control that decides where the wall is thick and where it is thin. Every jug of milk and every jerry can you own started this way.
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4:30 Food and PackagingBuilding a greenfield brewery filling line
A greenfield brewery line from empty floor to full production, filmed as a project rather than as a machine demo. You see how filler, pasteuriser, packer and palletiser have to be balanced against each other or the whole line stalls. Rare and useful insight into how a line is actually specified.
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8:42 Printing and ConvertingHow wrapping paper is printed
A full production run of printed wrapping paper on a large format offset press, from plate to finished pallet. Heidelberg North America explains ink, coating and the reel-fed sheeter feeding the press. A genuinely good end-to-end look at commercial printing.
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3:29 Energy and Heavy IndustryA robotic press brake bending cell
A robot feeds sheet metal into a press brake, flips it between bends and stacks the finished part, running a full bending sequence with no operator. Press brake tending is one of the hardest robot jobs because the part changes shape in the robot's hand. This cell does it cleanly.
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14:59 Additive ManufacturingThe material science of metal 3D printing
Real Engineering explains what actually happens metallurgically when a laser melts powder into solid metal, and why the resulting microstructure is not the same as a casting or a forging. Layers are typically 20 to 60 microns thick and the laser scans at meters per second. The best technical explanation of metal additive manufacturing on YouTube.
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12:05 FuturisticA warehouse robot that can feel what it touches
A robot with tactile sensing that can feel the item it is holding and adjust its grip, which is the missing sense in almost all industrial robotics. CNBC gets close enough to see the gripper work. Touch is the hard problem, and this is the clearest look at somebody solving it.
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4:18 Robotics and Factory AutomationCase-handling robots running a whole distribution center
Symbotic replaces the pallet rack and the forklift with autonomous bots that run the full height and depth of the structure at speed. Cases are broken down, stored individually and rebuilt into store-ready pallets in the exact order a shelf stocker wants them. Watching a pallet get assembled to a floor plan is a strange kind of satisfying.
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12:48 Giant MachinesAmerica's iron giants, the most powerful metalworkers ever built
The United States Air Force built a set of forging presses in the 1950s so large that seventy years later they are still doing work no other machines can do. One squeezes with 50,000 tons of force. Machine Thinking tells the story with archive footage and real engineering, and the scale never stops being absurd.
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12:21 PrecisionMillions of tiny precision parts, made in Switzerland
Inside a Swiss shop producing millions of parts a year on rows of sliding headstock lathes, most of them running unattended. The parts are tiny, the tolerances are brutal and the volumes are enormous. It shows the economic argument for automation as clearly as the technical one.
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5:52 Textile and Bedding AutomationA multi-needle quilting machine with a panel cutter
A multi-needle quilter feeding straight into a panel cutter, so quilted fabric comes off the roll and leaves as stacked, sized mattress panels. Combining the two removes the buffer between them and a whole handling step. Six minutes of the exact machine combination that most mattress plants are built around.
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2:13 Plastics and RecyclingA single shaft shredder eating whole tires
A single-shaft shredder working through a pile of scrap tires, hydraulic ram forcing material into the rotor while the cutting table sizes the output. Everything about the machine is designed around the fact that steel-belted rubber destroys most equipment. It just keeps going.
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3:38 Food and PackagingA journey through a carton filling machine
A journey through an aseptic carton filling machine, which forms, fills and seals a sterile package from a reel of laminate while never letting a single organism in. The sterile zone is maintained by peroxide and heat, not by a clean room. It is the reason milk can sit on a shelf unrefrigerated.
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7:11 Printing and ConvertingHow paper becomes corrugated board
Georgia-Pacific walks through corrugated board from paper reel to finished sheet, filmed inside their own plant. It is plain, factual and shows the corrugating rolls forming the flute. The best short explanation of how a cardboard box actually gets its strength.
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2:32 Energy and Heavy IndustryHow a wind turbine blade is built
Inside a blade plant where glass fiber, balsa and resin are laid into a closed mold and infused under vacuum into a single structure longer than a jumbo jet wing. The mold itself is a multi-million dollar tool. Two and a half minutes that explain why blades cost what they do.
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9:10 Additive ManufacturingInside the world's largest 3D printed neighborhood
A gantry robot extrudes concrete wall by wall across an entire neighbourhood, with houses rising out of the ground in layers. CNBC covers the economics as well as the machine. Whether or not it scales, it is one of the most futuristic construction sites currently in operation.
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6:50 FuturisticThe full Amazon robot line up
Amazon's whole robot family in one film: floor drive units, robotic arms, container handlers and sortation systems, each doing one part of a job that used to be entirely manual. Seeing them explained as a system rather than as individual gadgets is what makes it worthwhile. Seven minutes, straight from the operator.
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4:05 Robotics and Factory AutomationA robot sewing a car seat cover
A robot arm feeding fabric through a sewing head sounds impossible, because cloth does not hold its shape. KUKA solved it by making the robot the feeder and the needle the fixed point, and the seat cover comes out straight. Anyone who has tried to automate soft goods will understand exactly how hard this is.
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9:19 Giant MachinesA shaft sinking machine digging straight down
Herrenknecht built a machine that sinks a vertical shaft from the surface downward, underwater, with nobody down the hole. The cutting head hangs below the shaft lining and grinds its way down while the lining follows it. It solves a problem that used to kill people regularly, and it is beautifully explained.
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11:46 PrecisionThe part the shop was told could not be machined
Titan takes on a part that other shops turned down, then shows the fixturing, the toolpath decisions and the moments where it nearly goes wrong. This is 5-axis machining as problem solving rather than as a highlight reel. The finished part is genuinely beautiful.
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5:33 Textile and Bedding AutomationPanel quilting on a mattress quilter
A chainstitch panel quilter running a full pattern across the width of the fabric, with the needle bar tracking a programmed path. Panel quilting is where the look of a mattress is decided, and the machine has to hold the pattern over hundreds of meters of material. Five clear minutes of it working.
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1:57 Plastics and RecyclingTurning scrap tires into fuel for a cement kiln
A shredder eating whole truck tires, steel belts included, and spitting out chip that goes straight into a cement kiln as fuel. The rotor does not slow down for the steel. Tire shredding is one of the most brutally impressive things a machine can do on camera.
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2:24 Food and PackagingA canning line filling and seaming
Empty cans arrive on an overhead air conveyor, drop into the filler, get seamed shut and leave in a solid moving wall of aluminum. Canning lines are the loudest and fastest thing in most beverage plants. Two and a half minutes of relentless throughput.
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5:51 Printing and ConvertingHow tissue paper is made
A tissue machine turns a dilute slurry of fiber and water into dry paper in seconds, at speeds where the sheet would tear if the tension were wrong by a fraction. Valmet explains the headbox, the Yankee dryer and the creping blade. The scale of a paper machine is hard to grasp until you see the reel.
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1:30 Energy and Heavy IndustryAn automatic bending cell working unattended
A compact automatic bending cell built for job shops rather than for a car plant: robot, press brake and tool changer in a footprint that fits a small building. It shows automation scaled down to a size most fabricators could actually justify. Ninety seconds, no music.