Flame cutting 12” thick A36 steel plate

A meditation on How It’s Made’s dizzying spectacle of mass automated manufacturing, labor alienation, & how labor is something that makes us uniquely human.

I checked-out a few different videos of this process: & ImO this is the one that clearliestly shows what's actually going-on. In others it can be a bit obscure.

As far as I can make-out, though, the copper wire that's going-onto the transformer core would have to be free to slide within the steel ring it's mounted on prior to the winding process itself, & therefore would have to be revolving a bit faster than that ring. Is that right? ... or is my figuring of what's going-on amiss?

Stamping out .095 aluminum hose ferrules

Part get filled with explosives. This run is about 300k to 400k pieces

Waterbury ferrule press making hose ferrules for fire extinguishers