Manufacturing & industrial processes Videos Recommended on Hacker News (53)
Manufacturing & industrial processes is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 53 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 142 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Manufacturing: factories, how things are made, injection molding, casting, machining, supply chain, assembly lines, industrial automation, lean production, mass production tours.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can: “Whenever it’s about cans I can only recommend this video from the engineer guy” — an HN commenter, 2025.
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9 mo on HNOrigins of Precision
6 mo on HNThe Art of Making a Nixie Tube
6 mo on HNI Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
5 mo on HNHOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
5 mo on HNThe Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations
4 mo on HNInside a Huge PCB Factory
3 mo on HNThe 1751 Machine that Made Everything
3 mo on HNAmerica's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
3 mo on HNHow Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
3 mo on HNHow the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
2 mo on HNThis Swiss Builder uses NO INSULATION...
2 mo on HNThe Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288
2 mo on HNBehind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
2 mo on HNUpdated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
2 mo on HNHow I Made My Own iPhone - in China
1 mo on HNHow Sikh Chefs Feed 100,000 People At The Gurudwara Bangla Sahib Temple In New Delhi, India
1 mo on HNMaster Hands - Chevrolet Manufacturing (1936)
1 mo on HN21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777 - Full Episode 1
1 mo on HNPointing and Calling Japanese Safety Standard at Railway Companies & Toyota (HD)
1 mo on HNMacintosh Factory
1 mo on HNThe Life of a Bolt
Also discussed on Hacker News (16)
Mentioned in HN threads about manufacturing & industrial processes, though never formally recommended:
Automatic Hamburger Machine - 50 Years Ahead of Its Time! · How It's Made - Canola Oil · 5Axis Machine Cutting HELMET / DAISHIN SEIKI CORPORATION · Robotic Distribution · The Machine to Build the Machines - NeXT · Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project · Tearing Into Tesla's Model 3 · What happens at a Materials Recycling Facility? (MRF) - How does our sorting machine work? · Oxbo Raspberry & Blueberry Harvesters · Tesla Fremont Flyover Gigapress Operation Captured - Jan 21, 2021 · Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments · China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don't Need Lights | WSJ · Mercedes A-Class Production line · Air Force Heavy Press Program (USAF film) by D.O.D. · Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk! · SSI's Shred of the Month: E-Scrap - Hard Drives Shredding (Q)