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.