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By Gregg Gordon, Kronos Inc.
I always look forward to watching "How It's Made" - a television show that goes on site to different manufacturers and films the production process. "How It's Made" has taken my favorite part of visiting a manufacturer, the production tour, and condensed it into a narrated, step-by-step 10 minute segment. The show documents a company's manufacturing process from issuing raw materials to packaging a finished product.
I wonder if the show's producers realize that in editing the actual video to fit into the show's time constraints, what they have really done for the manufacturer is provide a vision of perfect execution. During each segment, machines never break down, there's never a "cut to commercial" waiting for a critical operator to arrive, and material never warps ruining a production run. It's a production manager's dream, everything goes according to plan.
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