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
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.
Knife Manufacturing: Factory Tours
These factory tours will show all the techniques and processes of probably the oldest -yet still used- tool on the
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.
Tire Manufacturing
All the processes, from the raw material to the green tire finally molded and cured. Not many products involve so
Circuit board assembly
A complete overview of modern electronic board manufacturing.
Gas Cylinder Manufacture
Made by extruding metal dies, either by cold or hot forming, the gas cylinders initially made of steel, are now
Pressure Gauges Manufacturing
Shows well a semi-automatic version (other processes exist) of pressure gauge manufacturing, bourdon tube’s type.
Air Separation Unit
Shows how gases are extracted from air in the liquid phase, and then separated thanks to fractional distillation process in
