IDRA's spokesperson in this video is top notch. I appreciate how he's able to engage both Sandy _and_ the audience seamlessly. You can tell he's quite comfortable and experienced with both human interaction and being on camera.
In case anyone is interested in the stock, IDRA has been bought by a HK company during the 2008 crisis. Took me some time to find out The mother company is now LK Tech stock ticker is on HK exchange 0558. We have no idea of how they share profits with the mother company tho
Very very impressive. Consider all the effort and ingenuity. And then compare this to say real estate, or banking, or even coding. Nobody gets their hands dirty there, and it’s really not that goddamn hard. This stuff is cutting edge! These other people making real progress for human civilization, not the pencil pushing parasites.
Yeah, that was a really fascinating video. I kept trying to place John's accent - my best guess would be Scandinavian, educated in England. Looking forward to follow up videos.
It's awesome to see Sandy getting nerdy with an engineer. You can see how excited he is about his work. No marketing BS here, just raw engineering nerdiness. I love it!
Cool stuff! As a machinist who has made stuff on a much smaller scale over the years, I would of love to see the machines that actually do the "machining" to these huge parts. They must be absolutely massive.
The sheer size is impressive - and the tolerances and timing sequences and the engineering problems to overcome - for a humble electronics dude, this is just incredible...
Thanks to Tesla for making this tour a reality. Munro couldn’t convince OEMs to build a casting machine even half the size of the GIGAPRESS. IDRA wasn’t even sure if it was possible. Musk asked 5 casting machine companies to build the gigapress. 4 of them said it was impossible and IDRA said, “it might work”. Musk took that as a “Yes”. IDRA believed in their engineers to take the journey with TESLA. Fun to see Sandy’s mind blown…
Minimum of yearly parts required to make Giga pressing cost effective is 30-50k per year. The other manufacturers aren’t going to be doing the minimum yearly, so it’s TSLA only game for the auto sector. So even @ the 500K output of TeraAustin, the 50K is done in less than a quarterly.
@@iPhil77 this is a huge “tell”. The other OEMs are concerned about demand otherwise they would make the investment. They have not designed an EV with any real demand.
@@iPhil77 The other OEMs will be getting into this game because the economics makes sense going forward. 50,000 parts? How many millions of vehicles are built in a year? How many hundreds of thousands on shared platforms? Now compare how much floor space and how many other giant stamping machines and welding rigs this replaces, and how much labor and time it could save. Its not even about EVs. Its about general automotive manufacturing.
@@GET2222 More like they are fine with their manufacturing processes and can build millions of cars a year. If they feel the need to lower costs, perhaps they would switch in the future; however, they'll wait for someone else to prove out the new process before adopting it. (just like all the big automakers waited for Tesla to prove there was an EV market) "Big Auto" EV mfg. delays will be due to battery or semiconductors, not frames / body panel creation.
I used to work with high pressure diecasting machines in the 80's. One of the early projects I was involved in was replacing a worn out (unreplaceable and increasingly unreliable) mechanical timer used to sequence the injection phases. We built a custom controller based on a 6800 microprocessor that enabled the timing of the hydraulic valve actuations. I also assisted in commissioning a used Idra press that they bought. A key skill in the foundry was the metallurgy, the lab had a spectrum analyser to QA the aluminium for the correct alloys. That was also interesting to work on, as callouts were at least 24 hours delayed, I was allowed to try to fix it when it broke down, as there was no production without QA of the materials.
@@airheart1 Way to oversimplify Airheart1. When you push up against design limits, things break. I saw huge chillers run at 120% capacity, then get 18% Life Span. Owners were puzzled why 4 units failed in 16 months. The other units were on the way to failing given enough run time. There were 6 different points of failure that the manufacturer did not provide for. But they were sold anyway being inadequate to site conditions.
Italy has superb engineering skills and facilities. I’ve toured a few of their manufacturing factories and their overall designs and the tooling that makes and machines the components are generally second to none.
@@mick0matic Sensitive equipment like this can be hauled on European trains because chain and buffer coupling giving a smoother ride, but not on American ones which are way rougher because of the AAR couplers, they create lots of slack.
Congratulations on achieving 300K ! 600K will happen even faster! You've been a credit to manufacturing and the incredible talent to be found in all forms of engineering!
They deserve 3,000,000 subscribers. But real world knowledgeable channels without the click bait b.s. Sadly never really thrive in today's click bait mis information filled, fast food type of mentality based on never ending endless consumerism society. 🤔
The audience Munro & Associates commands now is basically a stadium of people. Thanks for bringing this to the masses and making the information accessible for the curious. There is so much insight and value being “a fly on the wall” watching M&A.
Holy crap, that was amazing and the IDRA hosts were so gracious and knowledgeable. I'm not sure if they understood the gravitas of Sandy's praise though. Thanks for sharing Team Munro!
I found Fiore easier to listen to. He started out by stating what the largest constraint was (customers want shorter injection times), then the implications of that constraint (faster movement, which makes stopping the machine and in particular stopping the hydraulic fluid more difficult), and then what they did to meet that constraint (more pumps and moving the valves to the moving platen itself to minimize the volume and mass of hydraulic fluid past the valves). Subtitle guy did a good job.
Munro has opened a whole new world for me. Never before did I care about this kind of machining until I discovered Tesla and Munro. I am enjoying this learning journey immensely. My background is elec. eng. in the medical imaging field, very far removed from a 9000 ton Gigapress! Great work Sandy and associates.
Mind blowing - tons of steel and liquid metal accelerating and decelerating in sub-second time-frames. And doing this again and again, 24-7! Well done Idra. You have earned the right to own the Giga-press name.
Congratulations to Munro and all associates…. On your 300,000 mile stones….. looking forward to 1million viewers in the next 5 years…. Been watching Munro Live from the beginning…. Keep up with the great work!!
I never thought that I would develop such an interest in complex engineering - and while I have an above-average understanding of much of the physics, most of this sort of stuff is way over my head - but Munro Live has become a MUST watch programme for me. Thanks to all involved for going out there and producing world-class mini-documentaries that deserve all the accolades you are getting. Proud, and honoured to be a subscriber.
I'm sure that for most mortals who have even a basic understanding of engineering, their brain cells have melted with the sheer size and complexity of these machines. 🤯🤯🤯
It's great to see the happy and positive reaction from the person giving the lecture when he (or she) recognises that the audience actually understands what is being taught.
Amazing! As a youth in the '70 and living in Milano, I often passed IDRA on the motorway. I was into plastics, but the injection processes are similar! Compliments to Italian genius!
Most of it was way over my head- but still very interesting and eye-opening. I knew the Giga-Presses were large- but I had no idea of the size of the 9000 Ton machine. Impressive! It looks like it could die-cast our entire house in one 200ms burst of molten aluminum... Thanks, Sandy and Company for this amazing video!
Fascinating. I too started off life as a tool maker (for Tecalemit) and making moulds was an art, it's now a science and it's fascinating how we have progressed in the last 50-60 years. My first lathe, as an apprentice had 3.5 turns of backlash on the feed handle and the bed had wear in the bed-ways, now look at the precision we can achieve
enjoyed every second of this video. I am super impressed. IDRA can be very, very proud of themselves. Thanks for helping Tesla to become better every day. Tesla with, amongst other innovations, IDRA rules the house. The rest pays rent.
Holy Macaroni!!! Having worked around machinery of this size, I can appreciate what is at stake when designing and testing. The amount of mass and time cycles is absolutely awesome. Just thinking about those huge steel shafts being used as a spring gives one pause. Great tour!!
It seems like fate that Tesla and IDRA are working together and that IDRA named their massive presses the "Giga-press" just as Tesla named their massive factories "giga-factories". We are witnessing the marriage of the auto revolution of EVs with the manufacturing revolution of high-volume mega-casting. People gett hyped about 3D printing, but this is just as significant in many ways. Henry Ford greatly improved the manufacturing of automobiles with the assembly line, now Elon is once again improving the manufacturing of automobiles by using IDRA's presses. It's really amazing what IDRA has accomplished here.
Well said! 👍🏻 Amazing that Ford without the machine's, software automation and robot's of today's factories. Somehow between 1922&23 produced and sold over 3,300,000+model t in just the U.S. what a mean feat of raw human engineering and manufacturing prowess. 😎
This is very cool and impressive! I'm working at Nedschroef Machinery in Herentals Belgium, where we make cold and warm metal forming machines, ranging from 15T to 250T. Most of our clients are in the automotive industry making fasteners. Really enjoyed this walkthrough guys! I just love machinery and the complexity that comes with it. Our machines can do about 240 pieces /minute for a small machine of about 25T, to 90 pieces /minute for the big machines. And even after working here for 10 years it still amazes me when we are testing these machines. I hope you can show and explain us more about the machines that build the machine in future video's. This is what drives all the industies, but is never really shown to the world! Thank you Munro!!! Keep up the engineering work and analysis, and keep inspiring people to work in these industries.
I just love that my foundry industry is getting some love! I've probably been to the shop that is making all those massive steel castings, Sheffield? Voestalpine? Sande Stahlguss? In Italy perhaps?
Wow Sandy ! & IDRA ! I'M so impressed... Nothing beats great Engineering 👍 and Engineers at work. I've had this privilege 2x in my career Internationally. Well Done in Italy 🇮🇹 👏 👍
If I’m not mistaken this 9 ton press is headed for giga Austin and will one day be pumping out cyber castings. Really quite an amazing machine. It’s great to see Tesla supporting Italian heavy industry.
That was really interesting. I have worked with injection molding of plastic for most of my life, but with smaller machines. The forces involved here are just amazing. I guess that the hardest part is to make the machine survive the forces it introduce to itself.
Congrats Sandy, Corey and team! Great job and you deserve every single sub and more! Look forward to the next 600k and it will come, keep producing great quality stuff…
This is why I’m locked to Munro Live channel. I’m learning so much watching all the cool stuff that is put out here. Thanks for the education on these huge press machines and insights on IDRA’s manufacturing technologies. Simply amazing stuff.
This is kind of “out of my wheelhouse”, but I persevered and really learned a lot about how the manufacturing processes have advanced. It’s just amazing to see the scale and capabilities of these IRDA Presses - thanks to Sandy for bringing us such interesting content and thanks to Fiore and John for taking the time to educate us! As a follow-on (kind of out of scope for this particular video), it would be interesting to hear about supply chain challenges that IRDA is facing. Or, are they operating in less impacted areas?
Wow thank you for this I work in the injection molding industry and I was fortunate enough to be involved in the installation of a4000T press and this 9000T dwarfs it
@@rogerstarkey5390 Yeah, but their other customers were happy with whatever they could get off the shelf; they aren't pushing the envelope on manufacturer like Tesla is. Most of the companies Tesla contacted said this was impossible to do.
This was a fantastic explanation of the issues involved at scale, as a non-engineer I got this really quickly. Slowing things down quickly is hard without destroying things! Excellent. Congrats to IDRA, they are on the upwards rocket.
I could cry. When we think of Italy, many think of political “keystone-cop” type chaos and instability … but we should think of engineering excellence and superb professionalism.
Epic. This is world-class specialized machine design & engineering at it's very best in Northern Italy. A privilege to watch and learn. Thank you Sandy.
i clicked on this so fast i hurt My finger. IDRA is making possible something that is hard to comprehend, without imagination and application. it ain't enough to just think about something. I bet the Sandy Munro mind is just whirling right now.
Thank you very much to everyone responsible for the possibility of producing this first class video, greatly appreciated. Best regards Michael. Have a great week.
Kind of mind-blowing to be honest. after seeing the entire seating arrangement hooked to the battery pack of a Tesla and assembled as a single unit... this is just insane. Talk about engineering innovations.
Nothing mind blowing to see here! That structural battery like Corey said in Munro live is a total disaster with not reusability/repair in mind what a joke!!
I've heard Taurus, the gun maker I believe in Brazil, use a type of molten metal injection. But using steel or steel alloys. It works very similar to plastic mold injection. All these technologies, plus 3D metal printing is changing our manufacturing paradigm. I love this channel Munro Rocks!
Some do. Henry Rifle in Wisconsin uses them for the smaller parts, Ive seen that operation personally. Can be either hot-chamber or cold-chamber die-cast
The principle is simple - a mold that consists of two halves. One half is mounted fixed and the other one is movable. You close the mold, inject liquid aluminium and open the mold once the aluminium has solidified. What is really amazing is that they were able to scale this up to this huge size.
This basically uses absurd pressures to hold a giant waffle maker together except the heat comes from nearly boiling hot aluminum shot in at 180,000 PSI.
Yeah, I'd love to see a cutaway animation (including the cooling systems) so we can get a full appreciation of the ingenuity and problem solving that goes into the design. Simple in practice, but complex issues at this sort of scale.
A big thank you to Sandy Munro and his team for coming to see us and then posting this informative video!
👍
Thanks for having us!
Brescia caput mundi 😀
What a fantastic place you have with top-notch workmanship.
This was incredibly interesting to watch!
IDRA's spokesperson in this video is top notch. I appreciate how he's able to engage both Sandy _and_ the audience seamlessly. You can tell he's quite comfortable and experienced with both human interaction and being on camera.
That's right but the other Italian is the man who designed it all with his team... proud Italian. Beautiful.
And Sandy is covertly interviewing him for a job. 😆
@@willemhaifetz-chen1588 Who didn't need subtitles. The spokesman is clearly English/Italian.
dude can sell
Agreed. Not just a regular sales person... this man has intimate system knowledge.
That was impressive. Engineering on an absolutely massive scale. Hats off to these guys; they really know their stuff.
In case anyone is interested in the stock, IDRA has been bought by a HK company during the 2008 crisis. Took me some time to find out
The mother company is now LK Tech stock ticker is on HK exchange 0558.
We have no idea of how they share profits with the mother company tho
Sandy and Idra come through under pressure.
🎓
Very very impressive. Consider all the effort and ingenuity. And then compare this to say real estate, or banking, or even coding. Nobody gets their hands dirty there, and it’s really not that goddamn hard. This stuff is cutting edge! These other people making real progress for human civilization, not the pencil pushing parasites.
Yeah, that was a really fascinating video. I kept trying to place John's accent - my best guess would be Scandinavian, educated in England. Looking forward to follow up videos.
I'm so excited to watch this IDRA tour. Such an important company. The Italian people should be really proud of them :) True European innovation
Company is now owned by …you guessed it, 🇨🇳.
I'm sure some flag waving US citizen will find a way to massage its challenged ego and put a US flag sticker on it. ;-)
@@bsl2501 ah, classic
@@mandoleg but still, I‘m so happy this is in italy an flourishing. purpose!
@@bsl2501 They can't get mad and take the Italian factory to China. Italy already has their money.
Idra is from my town in Italy: really proud of this Italian excellence
Grande gnaro!!
It's awesome to see Sandy getting nerdy with an engineer. You can see how excited he is about his work. No marketing BS here, just raw engineering nerdiness. I love it!
He is marketing, but knows about the machine.
You can see he is proudly explaining as he goes.
Best way to market anything.
Loved the openness of the Idra tour team and the way Sandy let them explain without needless interruptions. A class act all round.
Why can't they test with aluminum in Italy, and have to do a dry test? Anyone know? Both kind of glossed over that.
I like how Sandy reiterates three minutes of explanations in one sentence.
"This is a shock absorber, capacitor and on top of that it's also an accelerator".
Cool stuff!
As a machinist who has made stuff on a much smaller scale over the years, I would of love to see the machines that actually do the "machining" to these huge parts. They must be absolutely massive.
The sheer size is impressive - and the tolerances and timing sequences and the engineering problems to overcome - for a humble electronics dude, this is just incredible...
a how-2 video! like on the discovery channel !! right!
Yes, lets see the machine that makes the Machine; which then makes The MACHINE.
Manufacturing is like a huge Russian nesting doll in reverse.
Sounded like the big stuff was cast not machined, but what do I know.
Thanks to Tesla for making this tour a reality. Munro couldn’t convince OEMs to build a casting machine even half the size of the GIGAPRESS. IDRA wasn’t even sure if it was possible. Musk asked 5 casting machine companies to build the gigapress. 4 of them said it was impossible and IDRA said, “it might work”. Musk took that as a “Yes”. IDRA believed in their engineers to take the journey with TESLA.
Fun to see Sandy’s mind blown…
Yeah, i remember that quote very well. IDRA took the chance to make history 😎✌👏
Minimum of yearly parts required to make Giga pressing cost effective is 30-50k per year. The other manufacturers aren’t going to be doing the minimum yearly, so it’s TSLA only game for the auto sector.
So even @ the 500K output of TeraAustin, the 50K is done in less than a quarterly.
@@iPhil77 this is a huge “tell”. The other OEMs are concerned about demand otherwise they would make the investment. They have not designed an EV with any real demand.
@@iPhil77 The other OEMs will be getting into this game because the economics makes sense going forward. 50,000 parts? How many millions of vehicles are built in a year? How many hundreds of thousands on shared platforms? Now compare how much floor space and how many other giant stamping machines and welding rigs this replaces, and how much labor and time it could save. Its not even about EVs. Its about general automotive manufacturing.
@@GET2222 More like they are fine with their manufacturing processes and can build millions of cars a year. If they feel the need to lower costs, perhaps they would switch in the future; however, they'll wait for someone else to prove out the new process before adopting it. (just like all the big automakers waited for Tesla to prove there was an EV market)
"Big Auto" EV mfg. delays will be due to battery or semiconductors, not frames / body panel creation.
As an Electrical Engineer, this was jaw dropping for me.
Thank you Sandy and IDRA. 👍👍🇺🇸
Munro Live: The best engineering school on the internet!
I used to work with high pressure diecasting machines in the 80's. One of the early projects I was involved in was replacing a worn out (unreplaceable and increasingly unreliable) mechanical timer used to sequence the injection phases. We built a custom controller based on a 6800 microprocessor that enabled the timing of the hydraulic valve actuations. I also assisted in commissioning a used Idra press that they bought. A key skill in the foundry was the metallurgy, the lab had a spectrum analyser to QA the aluminium for the correct alloys. That was also interesting to work on, as callouts were at least 24 hours delayed, I was allowed to try to fix it when it broke down, as there was no production without QA of the materials.
Way to make it all about you Zagabog.. 😄
@@airheart1 Way to oversimplify Airheart1. When you push up against design limits, things break. I saw huge chillers run at 120% capacity, then get 18% Life Span. Owners were puzzled why 4 units failed in 16 months. The other units were on the way to failing given enough run time. There were 6 different points of failure that the manufacturer did not provide for. But they were sold anyway being inadequate to site conditions.
@@Bruh-mo5kk it was just a joke.. see the smiley face? Ahh well.. I thought it was funny at least lol
OffTopic but damn A ludbud here. Awesome
Italy has superb engineering skills and facilities. I’ve toured a few of their manufacturing factories and their overall designs and the tooling that makes and machines the components are generally second to none.
Some of the best engineers I saw at MSFT were also Italian. It's how they think about design that stands out in my memory.
Holy crap! everything is HUGE at IDRA, unbelievable that this all works as intended. The masses, speed and accuracy is mind blowing!
They just finish putting it together, and test it, then they tear it down ! Sandy must love that bit....
Let's thanks the truckers and logistics workers for their roll in getting these machines to Tesla. It' s team effort. Fascinating report.
I'm guessing most of this stuff would be shipped via boat.
💪4 real ! it's probably 12-24 semi loads here!
Trains are much better.
@@mick0matic Sensitive equipment like this can be hauled on European trains because chain and buffer coupling giving a smoother ride, but not on American ones which are way rougher because of the AAR couplers, they create lots of slack.
I was thinking about that. How amazing is it that men are able to move these machines all the way to various Gigafactories?
Congratulations on achieving 300K ! 600K will happen even faster! You've been a credit to manufacturing and the incredible talent to be found in all forms of engineering!
They deserve 3,000,000 subscribers. But real world knowledgeable channels without the click bait b.s. Sadly never really thrive in today's click bait mis information filled, fast food type of mentality based on never ending endless consumerism society. 🤔
Wow, thank you!
@@4literv6 I guarantee 3M still won't be enough because of one word: GREED
The audience Munro & Associates commands now is basically a stadium of people. Thanks for bringing this to the masses and making the information accessible for the curious. There is so much insight and value being “a fly on the wall” watching M&A.
Holy crap, that was amazing and the IDRA hosts were so gracious and knowledgeable. I'm not sure if they understood the gravitas of Sandy's praise though. Thanks for sharing Team Munro!
Incredible machines! I really appreciate being able to see and hear the discussion about how they work and are made.
Thanks Sandy for the amazing tour and CONGRATS to 302,000 Subs!!!
I found Fiore easier to listen to. He started out by stating what the largest constraint was (customers want shorter injection times), then the implications of that constraint (faster movement, which makes stopping the machine and in particular stopping the hydraulic fluid more difficult), and then what they did to meet that constraint (more pumps and moving the valves to the moving platen itself to minimize the volume and mass of hydraulic fluid past the valves).
Subtitle guy did a good job.
Yeah what are the chain of things that have to change with what may seem like one small change. Really a huge change.
"Customers said 120ms is too slow" To fill a huge die in 120ms seems very fast to me.
"This is a shock absorber, capacitor and on top of that it's also an accelerator". That's another great line.
Munro has opened a whole new world for me. Never before did I care about this kind of machining until I discovered Tesla and Munro. I am enjoying this learning journey immensely. My background is elec. eng. in the medical imaging field, very far removed from a 9000 ton Gigapress! Great work Sandy and associates.
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us, "No"
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
A whole new world
100% !!!
@@MunroLive never did I think an Aladdin song lyric would be correlated to engineering so well. Hilarious and ingenious.
Excellent video.
They are speaking my language, having worked for Husky injection molding for 23 years.
Mind blowing - tons of steel and liquid metal accelerating and decelerating in sub-second time-frames. And doing this again and again, 24-7!
Well done Idra. You have earned the right to own the Giga-press name.
Congratulations to Munro and all associates…. On your 300,000 mile stones….. looking forward to 1million viewers in the next 5 years…. Been watching Munro Live from the beginning…. Keep up with the great work!!
Incredible engineering and a great showcase for Italian design. Congratulations.
you got to appreciate the companies that make disrupting the market possible. thanks for making this tour possible IDRA and Sandy!
I never thought that I would develop such an interest in complex engineering - and while I have an above-average understanding of much of the physics, most of this sort of stuff is way over my head - but Munro Live has become a MUST watch programme for me. Thanks to all involved for going out there and producing world-class mini-documentaries that deserve all the accolades you are getting. Proud, and honoured to be a subscriber.
I'm sure that for most mortals who have even a basic understanding of engineering, their brain cells have melted with the sheer size and complexity of these machines. 🤯🤯🤯
It's great to see the happy and positive reaction from the person giving the lecture when he (or she) recognises that the audience actually understands what is being taught.
Mind blowing. Making real engineering COOL.
MUNRO and Associates is one of the BEST advertising that TESLA could ask for. And all honest and factual info from Sandy Munco !
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SOOOO LONG!!! THANK YOU, SANDY!!!
You are welcome!
27:58 the real italian speaking italian in the background 🤌🤌
Proud to be 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
So happy you guys are part of this community!!
Amazing! As a youth in the '70 and living in Milano, I often passed IDRA on the motorway. I was into plastics, but the injection processes are similar! Compliments to Italian genius!
Most of it was way over my head- but still very interesting and eye-opening. I knew the Giga-Presses were large- but I had no idea of the size of the 9000 Ton machine. Impressive! It looks like it could die-cast our entire house in one 200ms burst of molten aluminum... Thanks, Sandy and Company for this amazing video!
Absolutely fantastic to watch!!! We are in a whole new era of youtubing with this stamping explaned and the 4680 cell by Gordon. Amazing!!!
Thanks Sandy for letting us know better the engineering behind GigaPresses. It’s truly fascinating and make me so proud of italian entrepreneurship 🇮🇹
Sandy and his group of highly skilled engineers are one of the most interesting, compelling, and fascinating channels on UA-cam.
300k!!! Thank you Sandy and team!
Sandy and the munro guys congratulations! Keep up the good work, very interesting stuf as always, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating. I too started off life as a tool maker (for Tecalemit) and making moulds was an art, it's now a science and it's fascinating how we have progressed in the last 50-60 years. My first lathe, as an apprentice had 3.5 turns of backlash on the feed handle and the bed had wear in the bed-ways, now look at the precision we can achieve
Thanks so much Sandy to share the Italian’s expertise in machinery around the world. I’m very proud of it. John is a super host
Loved how Sandy patted the engineer on the back and told him well done. The engineer really appreciated the appreciation 👍
Italy has very beautiful machinery suppliers and manufacturers. It is good to see that Idra is taking advantage of that.
enjoyed every second of this video. I am super impressed. IDRA can be very, very proud of themselves. Thanks for helping Tesla to become better every day. Tesla with, amongst other innovations, IDRA rules the house. The rest pays rent.
This gentleman is excellent at explaining complicated topics in a way that a toddler could understand.
Holy Macaroni!!! Having worked around machinery of this size, I can appreciate what is at stake when designing and testing. The amount of mass and time cycles is absolutely awesome. Just thinking about those huge steel shafts being used as a spring gives one pause. Great tour!!
Kinda reminded me of battleship engineering or large scale ship building tbh. Amazing a machine like this makes a single piece of a car. 😎
I was in Verona during this time, I should have went. IDRA is amazing. Italy is a top manufacturer of everything related to fluids.
That was impressive! Thanks for sharing the tour with us!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, things like this wil change our world 😊
What a great video. Would love to do another interview with Sandy. Last one was AMAZING.
Meine allergrößte Hochachtung an die Ingenieure von IDRA und dem Wagemut von Mr Musk !
Ich selber bin Deutscher Ingenieur
Hello Sandy, Thank you and your team for some amazing videos.
Sandy looks so totally overwhelmed the whole time. Really fun video!
Truely a video for engineers. Loved hearing about the efficiency of their large presses
I am thoroughly impressed by the sheer size and precision of those machines.
It seems like fate that Tesla and IDRA are working together and that IDRA named their massive presses the "Giga-press" just as Tesla named their massive factories "giga-factories". We are witnessing the marriage of the auto revolution of EVs with the manufacturing revolution of high-volume mega-casting. People gett hyped about 3D printing, but this is just as significant in many ways. Henry Ford greatly improved the manufacturing of automobiles with the assembly line, now Elon is once again improving the manufacturing of automobiles by using IDRA's presses. It's really amazing what IDRA has accomplished here.
Well said! 👍🏻
Amazing that Ford without the machine's, software automation and robot's of today's factories. Somehow between 1922&23 produced and sold over 3,300,000+model t in just the U.S. what a mean feat of raw human engineering and manufacturing prowess. 😎
@@4literv6 Impressive even by today's standards.
Tesla has absolutely nothing to do with the naming. They were using that branding before tesla ever starting marketing it
@@mattbrew11 Yeah, Elon wanted it to be called the alien dreadnought, the public had other ideas and instantly dubbed it the Gigafactory after IDRA.
@@companyman7128 no. They are unrelated. I bet you think elon invented Gigabyte too
Thank you. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. No way I would ever get into this factory. Thank you for making this accessible.
The machine that makes the machine that makes the machine.
This is very cool and impressive! I'm working at Nedschroef Machinery in Herentals Belgium, where we make cold and warm metal forming machines, ranging from 15T to 250T. Most of our clients are in the automotive industry making fasteners. Really enjoyed this walkthrough guys! I just love machinery and the complexity that comes with it. Our machines can do about 240 pieces /minute for a small machine of about 25T, to 90 pieces /minute for the big machines. And even after working here for 10 years it still amazes me when we are testing these machines. I hope you can show and explain us more about the machines that build the machine in future video's. This is what drives all the industies, but is never really shown to the world! Thank you Munro!!! Keep up the engineering work and analysis, and keep inspiring people to work in these industries.
Cool to see Sandy overcome language barriers and communicate through the universal language of engineering.
They were all speaking English
I am 37 and this is maybe the third time that I have to admit I am proud of my country. Well done.
Just wow… thank u for bringing this engineering marvel to us
I love that guy John. You can tell he super passionate about the possibilities here. He knows his machines.
I just love that my foundry industry is getting some love! I've probably been to the shop that is making all those massive steel castings, Sheffield? Voestalpine? Sande Stahlguss? In Italy perhaps?
You can see the gears turning in Sandy's head as he stares intently and absorbing everything in sight! I know the feeling.
Excellent information! Thanks Sandy and crew
Thanks for watching, Tim!
Wow Sandy ! & IDRA ! I'M so impressed... Nothing beats great Engineering 👍 and Engineers at work. I've had this privilege 2x in my career Internationally. Well Done in Italy 🇮🇹 👏 👍
Amazing enormous machines. Love the tour!
Wow, what a company. Great presentation and amazing engineering. The knowledge shown is breath taking.
If I’m not mistaken this 9 ton press is headed for giga Austin and will one day be pumping out cyber castings. Really quite an amazing machine. It’s great to see Tesla supporting Italian heavy industry.
It already arrived early this year I believe.
I know people keep saying this on this channel, but i just can't believe I'm watchinig something like this for free
you guys are absolutely amazing
That was really interesting.
I have worked with injection molding of plastic for most of my life, but with smaller machines.
The forces involved here are just amazing. I guess that the hardest part is to make the machine survive the forces it introduce to itself.
Thanks!
Congrats Sandy, Corey and team! Great job and you deserve every single sub and more! Look forward to the next 600k and it will come, keep producing great quality stuff…
This is why I’m locked to Munro Live channel. I’m learning so much watching all the cool stuff that is put out here. Thanks for the education on these huge press machines and insights on IDRA’s manufacturing technologies. Simply amazing stuff.
This is kind of “out of my wheelhouse”, but I persevered and really learned a lot about how the manufacturing processes have advanced. It’s just amazing to see the scale and capabilities of these IRDA Presses - thanks to Sandy for bringing us such interesting content and thanks to Fiore and John for taking the time to educate us! As a follow-on (kind of out of scope for this particular video), it would be interesting to hear about supply chain challenges that IRDA is facing. Or, are they operating in less impacted areas?
It’s basically European engineering from the mold castings to electronics, valves……. I’m sure a lot of it comes from Germany via train too.
Wow thank you for this I work in the injection molding industry and I was fortunate enough to be involved in the installation of a4000T press and this 9000T dwarfs it
It's rellay cool to learn about the massive upgrades IDRA had to come up with to meet Tesla's cycle time requirements. Great video!
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"The customer"? 😉
@@rogerstarkey5390 Yeah, but their other customers were happy with whatever they could get off the shelf; they aren't pushing the envelope on manufacturer like Tesla is. Most of the companies Tesla contacted said this was impossible to do.
This was a fantastic explanation of the issues involved at scale, as a non-engineer I got this really quickly. Slowing things down quickly is hard without destroying things! Excellent. Congrats to IDRA, they are on the upwards rocket.
Congrats and kudos, Sandy.
The knowledge of IDRA staff is something that's satisfying to see...
Wow there really gearing up for about a dozen presses a year. That is wonderful.
A bit more than that. He said they could have six mchines if they expand to both bays, with an assembly time of 4 months!
All the OEMs are working on this. A little birdie told me theres an idra competitor coming to northern florida soon
Wow, so massive.
What a great tour. Thanks for posting!
I could cry.
When we think of Italy, many think of political “keystone-cop” type chaos and instability … but we should think of engineering excellence and superb professionalism.
Epic. This is world-class specialized machine design & engineering at it's very best in Northern Italy. A privilege to watch and learn. Thank you Sandy.
i clicked on this so fast i hurt My finger.
IDRA is making possible something that is hard to comprehend,
without imagination and application.
it ain't enough to just think about something.
I bet the Sandy Munro mind is just whirling right now.
Thank you very much to everyone responsible for the possibility of producing this first class video, greatly appreciated. Best regards Michael. Have a great week.
Kind of mind-blowing to be honest. after seeing the entire seating arrangement hooked to the battery pack of a Tesla and assembled as a single unit... this is just insane. Talk about engineering innovations.
Nothing mind blowing to see here! That structural battery like Corey said in Munro live is a total disaster with not reusability/repair in mind what a joke!!
Danke!
I've heard Taurus, the gun maker I believe in Brazil, use a type of molten metal injection. But using steel or steel alloys. It works very similar to plastic mold injection. All these technologies, plus 3D metal printing is changing our manufacturing paradigm. I love this channel Munro Rocks!
Some do. Henry Rifle in Wisconsin uses them for the smaller parts, Ive seen that operation personally.
Can be either hot-chamber or cold-chamber die-cast
Thank you Sandy and IDRA folks for providing just a glimpse into what is happening now but also into the future. What an exciting time to be alive.
I still have no idea how this thing works but it's cool to see the scale of it.
The principle is simple - a mold that consists of two halves. One half is mounted fixed and the other one is movable. You close the mold, inject liquid aluminium and open the mold once the aluminium has solidified. What is really amazing is that they were able to scale this up to this huge size.
This basically uses absurd pressures to hold a giant waffle maker together except the heat comes from nearly boiling hot aluminum shot in at 180,000 PSI.
Yeah, I'd love to see a cutaway animation (including the cooling systems) so we can get a full appreciation of the ingenuity and problem solving that goes into the design. Simple in practice, but complex issues at this sort of scale.
AND CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 🍻🥂🥃TO MONROE AND ALL YOUR ASSOCIATES FOR HITTING 302,000 subs and I am VERY THANKFUL TO BE ONE OF THEM 🙋♂️
Wow!
Stopping 240 tons in 50 mm(2 inches)!
Great work Sandy!!
You are KILLING IT!!!
This was an epic video.
Sandy actually look pretty impressed.
I wonder if legacy Auto will figure it out, before it's too late..
Really good in depth tour, thanks to Sandy and IDRA Group