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Ultimate Factories

Season 6 2012
TV-G

  • 2012-05-03T20:00:00Z on National Geographic
  • 1h
  • 11h 45m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Ultimate Factories also known as Megafactories is an American documentary television series that premiered in 2006 on the National Geographic Channel. The program explores the inner workings of factories worldwide. Each episode profiles the machinery and manpower behind each factory's main product, featuring close-ups, breakdowns, interviews, and side stories to show the sequence of events to produce the product in the factory. Hoff Productions was one of the principal producers of this highly successful series. It also airs in non-US markets as Megafactories.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-05-03T20:00:00Z

6x01 Boeing 747

Season Premiere

6x01 Boeing 747

  • 2012-05-03T20:00:00Z1h

How the popular Boeing 747 is being upgraded to challenge new models such as the Airbus A380, which has proved tough competition for the American company.

2012-05-10T20:00:00Z

6x02 EA Sports: FIFA 12

6x02 EA Sports: FIFA 12

  • 2012-05-10T20:00:00Z45m

Enter the EA factory in Burnaby, Canada, to learn how video game creators took football off the field and turned it into a virtual masterpiece.

2012-05-10T20:00:00Z

6x03 Piaggio Vespa

6x03 Piaggio Vespa

  • 2012-05-10T20:00:00Z45m

It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Corrandino D'Ascanio's easy-to-ride, easy-to-maintain scooter design put post-war Italy on two wheels. Look at the factory where the same basic design cranks off the assembly line.

2012-05-12T20:00:00Z

6x04 Mercedes Truck Actros

6x04 Mercedes Truck Actros

  • 2012-05-12T20:00:00Z45m

Each new version of the Actros is custom made by Mercedes-Benz, a supreme test of efficiency for a factory that builds a truck every two minutes.

2012-05-17T20:00:00Z

6x05 Swiss Army Knife

6x05 Swiss Army Knife

  • 2012-05-17T20:00:00Z45m

At the Victorinox factory in Switzerland, raw steel is fashioned into the most iconic multi-purpose tool invented – the Swiss Army Knife.

2012-05-17T20:00:00Z

6x06 Mclaren Supercar

6x06 Mclaren Supercar

  • 2012-05-17T20:00:00Z45m

2012-05-24T20:00:00Z

6x07 Speed Rail

6x07 Speed Rail

  • 2012-05-24T20:00:00Z1h

A step-by-step look at the making of Alstom's revolutionary high-speed train, the AGV, which could be the fourth record-breaking creation from the company.

2012-05-25T20:00:00Z

6x08 Illy Coffee

6x08 Illy Coffee

  • 2012-05-25T20:00:00Z1h

Learn how the Italian company use cutting-edge technology to produce 37,500kg of coffee a day, and export to 140 countries worldwide.

2012-05-28T20:00:00Z

6x09 Iveco HMV

6x09 Iveco HMV

  • 2012-05-28T20:00:00Z1h

Let's go to Bolzano and find out how Iveco vehicles are made, used for military and civil protection purposes. The latest product is the Multi-role Light Tactical Vehicle.

2012-06-14T20:00:00Z

6x10 Guinness

6x10 Guinness

  • 2012-06-14T20:00:00Z1h

A look behind the scenes at the biggest dark beer brewery in the world, the 48-acre St James Gate Brewery, located right in the middle of Dublin.

2012-06-28T20:00:00Z

6x11 Extreme Roller Coaster

6x11 Extreme Roller Coaster

  • 2012-06-28T20:00:00Z1h

The 'Giant Inverted Boomerang' roller coaster currently has only 5 installations in the world and speeds riders to over 100 kph over loops, drops and banks. This episode follows the construction of this roller coaster at the Jinjiang Action Park, Shanghai China.

2012-06-29T20:00:00Z

6x12 Tesla Model S

6x12 Tesla Model S

  • 2012-06-29T20:00:00Z1h

This is the story behind the world's first fully electric premium sedan - the Tesla Model S. Tesla's electrical experts in Fremont, CA are gearing up for mass production in a ground-breaking new Mega Factory

2012-07-10T20:00:00Z

6x13 Tata Nano

6x13 Tata Nano

  • 2012-07-10T20:00:00Z1h

Sir Ratan Tata is a man on a mission: to make India's roads safer by getting people off motorbikes and into the world's cheapest car - the Tata Nano.

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