The worst part about the narration is the grating voice of the woman who does it. Ruins the whole show for me.
Woman? The version that airs on the Science channel has two male narrators – they apparently switched to a different narrator at some point.
Hey thanks,
I just got my new knee 3 weeks ago and I already feel like I’ve been set free.
If it’s the same show that I see on the Discovery channel they’ve gone through many different narrators throughout the years.
That was a cool episode; the two guys welding in unison, the choosing and cutting of the leather, the attention to detail and perfect mirroring of the wood grain, etc.
Love the show, especially when it’s paired next to Dirty Jobs.
I’ve watched the show a few times; I find the topic interesting, but the pacing and narration are sooooo slow, it drives me crazy. It’s like a sleep aid for engineers. 
The woman tends to be the narrator on youtube, but the male narrators are on tv for the same segments. I thought they were ending this show in favor of Factory Made.
Actually, they sometimes have 2 segments for a given subject such as coffee or sugar or tubas, or watches - here is an episode guide which indicates Series 14 has at least 4 2-parters. Now, the episodes where they assemble large vehicles (such as front loaders, or personal jets, or the aforementioned Rolls Royces) I think the vast amount of actual assembly consists of repetive actions, so they just show highlights and expect the viewer to be smart enough to fill in the rest (it is a Canadian show, you know). OTOH, they had some segments where they kinda ran out of topic in the first minute (screwdrivers? or packaging? anyway, it was fairly simple) so they spliced on another simple manufacture process to fill up the time.
Even better, at least in the earlier series, they often followed thru over segments - like when they showed Leather Shoes in one segment - where did the leather come from? why, they covered that in an segment in an earlier series. Anyway you can follow the show’s history in the wiki link, but the US release version has had 2 sleepy-voiced monotonic announces, Brooks Moore (most of the series except for 2 series - the ones w/ the Fish Hook/Rubber Ball/Artifical Leg opening, which was voiced by the equally monotonic Zac Fine). What’s always amusing is listening to Brooks trip over himself trying to avoid saying metric units (although in the last few series they seem to give Brooks leave to say centimeter and liter from time to time). The shows released in Canada used Female narrators, the latest being Lynn Adams - those shows pretty much use standard metric measures thru-out, except when covering small craftsmen shops in New England or the like.
BTW, Series 12-ep 13 ‘Motorcycle engines’ had a surprizing rocking background song (mellowed down in a later segment), although I kind of like most of the synthesized background music they use.
How cool. I just learned how cheese is made. I feel educated!
That’s “edumacated” to you Rushgeekgirl!
A similar show, that often gets into more detail, is Factory Floor with Marshall Brain on National Geographic channel.
I especially like the guide info on Comcast. Example:
Episode 10: “Pencils, Waffles, Walnuts, Stickers.”
Description: Pencils, waffles, walnuts, stickers.
No love for Mark Tewksbury?
The worst part of the show are the STUPID puns they feel they have to get in at the start of each segment.
But I do love the show. I have a series recording set up, and watch every one of them. It helps that my day job is building software for factory automation - it’s nice to see the stuff actually get used. They’ve even shown a factory or two that runs on some of the software my office has produced. So that’s cool.
Perhaps Factory Made will do all those “metal goes in this hole and comes out of this hole as a thingamigger that’s mounted on the whosits with this here machine” type segments and How It’s Made will feature more things like handmade candles, sneakers, instruments-- things we can actually see made.
This is the opinion of a non-engineer girl and should be taken viewed as such.
That is cool. At a kiddo B-day party I was talking with another dad that designs systems to process (separate) recyclable materials along a conveyor. It took advantage of the physical properties of each, using magnetism, bursts of wind, fricton, etc to isolate each to its respective bin. It was fascinating to hear about really, which I guess begs the question - Would a How It’s Recycled spot fare well too? I’d be a gamer for one episode.
Can you give us a hint? 
Some of the puns are pretty good. A little geeky humor never hurt anyone. It’s a great show, but I find so often that I’ve already seen the episode. Were there not that many made?