In the 21st century, manufacturing is anything but boring. This program goes inside high-tech factories to see how products ranging from toys and makeup to bulldozers and helicopters are made. Marcus Crotts, of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Lean Manufacturing Institute’s James Womack, author of Lean Thinking; and professors James Solberg and Herb Moskowitz, of Purdue University, share their insights into the workings of the value stream—a process of going from raw materials to finished products that today includes on-demand fabrication, advanced robotics, and zero-defect quality control standards. A Discovery Channel Production. (49 minutes)