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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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)