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Factory Tours

Factory tours are a must. We recommend visiting real factories and having your own observations of processes (go to ‘Gemba -the place where the value is added-), but if far or not available to you, use these videos & articles. The main objective is seeing how products are made: you can gain a greater appreciation for the work that goes into making them, the technologies and steps required, but also its difficulties and why maybe you should choose this or avoid this technology or process in your next product design.

Suggest links or provide info on how to visit your factory or process in the “Events” section.

Factory Tours

How Are Plastic Bottles Made

Due to their performance yet cheap price, plastic bottles are the highest volume of consumable plastic parts produced, which converts into the highest plastic pollution source on earth. View here the technology principles of plastic bottle manufacturing and the...

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Knife Manufacturing: Factory Tours

These factory tours will show all the techniques and processes of probably the oldest -yet still used- tool on the earth, ie knife manufacturing. This involves steel selection, coating or treatment, machining, plastics or leather-work, and ergonomics. We have classified...

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PCB Manufacturing: the Process & Efficiently

Printed circuit boards, or PCBs, are the foundation of most electronic devices and is achieved through the PCB manufacturing process. They are made by layering thin sheets of copper onto a non-conductive substrate, and then etching away the excess...

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Tire Manufacturing

All the processes, from the raw material to the green tire finally molded and cured. Not many products involve so many different processes and materials in volumes of millions per year. The technologies involved: elastomer, natural rubber & curing complex mold technics leak-tight...

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Circuit board assembly

A complete overview of modern electronic board manufacturing. Shows two assembly and brazing technics, depending on the components used: SMT (Surface Mound Technology) for smaller components wave soldering, for bigger components using the so-called through-hole technology where wire leads pass through the...

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Gas Cylinder Manufacture

Made by extruding metal dies, either by cold or hot forming, the gas cylinders initially made of steel, are now made also in aluminum when the portability and the light gas package matter. As these containers have potentially to...

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Pressure Gauges Manufacturing

Shows well a semi-automatic version (other processes exist) of pressure gauge manufacturing, bourdon tube's type. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxhNLtP8jpI Related Readings & Technologies Temperature Sensors: Complementary for understanding the thermal conditions that can affect pressure readings. Flow Meters: Used alongside pressure gauges to assess and...

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Air Separation Unit

Shows how gases are extracted from air in the liquid phase, and then separated thanks to fractional distillation process in an industrial Air Separation Unit (ASU) and then compressed into gas cylinder. Most typical gases produced by distillation: Nitrogen, Oxygen...

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