The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288
SmarterEveryDay2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2023–2025
documentary · general · evergreen · 2023–2025 on HN
Destin Sandlin tours a progressive metal stamping factory, showing machines that stamp millions of metal parts and the tooling behind them.
Recommended for factory-process fans and as part of a series on how US manufacturing is losing tooling capability.
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3 comments from Hacker News
SmarterEveryDay has a whole series[1] on manufacturing that covers how the US is losing/lost the ability to create tooling. I believe the "Smarter Scrubber" episode[2] is the one that explicitly talks about how not only has the US lost manufacturing capacity but it also lost the ability to spin up manufacturing. The tool and die episode also touches on it[3]. [1] link [2] ▶ this video [3] link
In a similar vein, but for different products, but also with much more focus on the "back end" of the process: ▶ this video
It's neat finding out that his earlier video on stamping sheet metal and bending it into shapes was actually him doing research for the handle of this scrubber. ▶ this video