The March of Time
Quality Manufacturing
MOT 1938: MANUFACTURING: 100 pound barrel on mattress man observing. TEXTILES: Machine testing strength of material. FOOD PRODUCTION: Peeled cleaned vegetables moving on double conveyor belt w/ women lined up behind filling pots cleaning...
Curated Video
Materials - Design Behind the Bike (4/5)
A look at the materials used in bike manufacture - titanium, carbon fibre and the resurgence of steel. (Part 4 of 5) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQpDGfX5e7CkFmNjuwdPjNAmZm6xyCMi Transcript link -...
Curated Video
The Importance and Applications of Potassium: A Nutrient and Element
Learn about potassium, an important nutrient and element found in bananas. The video covers the discovery and properties of potassium, its role in the human body, its presence in various foods, and its uses in agriculture and other...
MinutePhysics
Solar Panels Made With a Particle Accelerator?!
This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate from the main crystal in much...
Curated Video
20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
Living things have engineered some pretty awesome materials, but I'm not sure anything measures up to spider silk. It's as strong, as stretchy, and as resilient than even humans' most advanced creations like Kevlar and steel. So how do...
Curated Video
Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the economic malaise that beset the United States in the 1970s. A sort of perfect storm of events, it combined the continuing decline of America's manufacturing base and the oil shocks of 1973 and...
TED Talks
Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?
MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together. It's a big...
TED Talks
TED: Why are we making pizza boxes out of endangered trees? | Nicole Rycroft
If we're going to solve the climate crisis, we need to talk about supply chains, says biodiversity champion and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Nicole Rycroft. Her organization, Canopy, partners with key industry leaders to overhaul their...
Science360
New, printable and flexible ceramic bone grafts could be a game changer - Science Nation
"Hyperelastic Bone" can be matched to patients or used off-the-shelf and could be cheaper, better and less painful than conventional bone tissue Description: The transplanting of bone tissue, known as bone grafting, typically involves...
Science360
Robotic hand with a delicate grip - Empire Robotics at CES 2015
In industry, fragile or difficult-to-grip items require a delicate touch. That’s why Empire Robotics, funded by the NSF Small Business Innovation Research program, is bringing the VERSABALL to the marketplace. The VERSABALL is a...
Zach Star
Mechanical Engineering Subfields and Senior Project Examples
Mechanical engineering is a broad major that can be broken up into different subfields or concentrations. The main concentrations I discuss in this video are Mechatronics, HVAC, and Manufacturing. Mechatronics is the combination of...
Curated Video
The Technology Behind 3D Printing
3D printing allows for the creation of three-dimensional objects by layering materials through computer control. With the ability to produce objects of any color and shape, 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has...
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 39
Stinging snot bombs, graphene from trash in a flash, coronavirus creature feature, and sweating robots – cool! Researchers create 3D-printed, sweating robot muscle...
Science360
Trash to graphene in a flash - Better buildings through bananas
With support from the National Science Foundation, chemists have discovered a way to convert just about any carbon source, including food waste, coal and plastic, into graphene — the strongest material known. Ten milliseconds later...
The Business Professor
Job Order Costing vs Process Costing of Products in Accounting
Cost accounting entails the assignment of costs incurred during the manufacture of a product. Job order costing and process costing are methods of assigning product costs in managerial accounting
Zach Star
What is Industrial Engineering?
Industrial engineering focuses on improving processes. Industrial engineers analyze and optimize systems such as waiting in line at a theme park, boarding an airplane, helping people at a bank, answering calls at a call center, as well...
Curated Video
What is a Golf Ball Made Of?
Discover the technology and materials used in the manufacturing of golf balls. From the core made of synthetic rubber or metal blends, to the layers of resin and thermoplastic, each component is carefully designed to enhance performance....
IDG TECHtalk
Intel’s $20 billion investment into Ohio chipmaking facility, plus chip shortage updates
Intel recently announced plans to invest $20 billion into a massive new semiconductor fabrication plant in Ohio. This announcement comes as Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said the U.S. urgently needs to increase domestic chip...
Curated Video
NASA | SDO: Year 5
February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than once per second, SDO has provided an...
The Business Professor
Calculating Prime and Conversion Cost
Prime costs are those direct material and direct labor costs necessary to finish a product. Conversion costs are the overhead and direct labor necessary to convert a raw material into a final product.
Curated Video
NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)
It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy that drive weather, biology and more. In addition to keeping life alive on Earth, the sun also sends out a constant flow of particles called the solar wind, and it occasionally...
NASA
NASA | EUNIS Sees Evidence for Nanoflare Coronal Heating
Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The new observations show temperatures in the atmosphere so hot that only one...
Curated Video
NASA | Arching Eruption
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun on June 18, 2015. The eruption ultimately escaped the sun, growing into a substantial coronal mass ejection, or CME — a giant cloud of solar...
Financial Times
The race is on for green tech resources
FT Energy Source - Just a few countries dominate the mines and production facilities crucial to the green energy transition. The problem is that this makes this part of the supply chain especially vulnerable for manufacturers.