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How PC Case Panels Are Made: Raw Metal Factory Tour in Taiwan, ft. Lian Li
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- This factory tour in Taiwan shows a raw metal factory that makes sheet metal (aluminum and steel). Case manufacturers buy metal from these factories to make panels.
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Many of our factory tours have taken us to both Taiwan and China, primarily Taoyuan or Taipei for the former and Shenzhen or Dongguan for the latter, with raw materials especially centralized. Due to human malware concerns presently spiraling, the metals factory we visited in Taiwan has more business than ever. Its competition across the ocean is operating at significantly reduced capacity, so companies that can afford to make their products in Taiwan are sourcing parts locally rather than importing them. It was a busy time to visit the factory, affording an incredible opportunity to film the full process of how sheet metal is made. Lian Li is a customer of this factory, using its metal for networking chassis and sometimes DIY cases.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - How PC Case Panels Are Made
02:50 - Metal Arriving at the Factory
06:20 - The First Process: The Leveler
08:52 - The Mini-Leveler & Test Processes
10:24 - To Lian Li's Factory
12:16 - Cutting Metal Panels
14:58 - Cleaning the Panels
16:16 - Bending Panels
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CAN U guys get a CNC SURFACE GRINDER already to accurately sand the INTEL chips to overclock. It's so uneven doing it by hand.
When unrolling the metal rolls, the factory I worked at would guide it through a set of rollers that would bend it in the opposite direction that the roll was bent, to effectively straighten the metal. Those rollers would change the degree of bend, as the roll got smaller and smaller. Plus, in the US, the machines that cut the sheets is called a shear.
We also like to call the bending machines a metal brake in the US... Don't ask me why they call it that...
These are cool,kind of like that show How Its Made but with Steve. Which is good btw:)
How about going to a pc fan factory and have them explain why 3 fans cost more than a 6 core cpu or a motherboard or A CASE WITH 3 FANS INCLUDED!?!?!
I can imagine the hook operators job interview. Walks into the interviewers office, and right next to the interviewer sits a Pokemon ball grappling machine.
"...which ultimately goes back to the foundry. We'll get there eventually."
Lmao
So what's next? Metal mining site tour?
Yup, looking forward in due course to the foundry, the mine, the logistics hub and the CSCL container ship tours.
Welcome to another How It's Made, with your host Steve Burke.
Or "Dirty jobs", depending on how you look at it.
@@liviubita4238 that's by far anything like a dirty jobs bud, lemme guess anything requiring anything but a tie is a dirty job to you?
To someone working a desk job, working at a factory in working suit under Taiwan summer heat seems dirty enough.
@@cyrfung it's not dirty jobs show dirty tho atleast looking at it
Just what I was thinking. Love the GN style, it's apparently versatile.
Note for at 12:34: a lot of heavy machinery are bolted to the floor for another reason specific for Taiwan and that region: seismic events.
The same happens with all machinery found at chip-manufacturers fabs...all have seismic anchors.
Great point!
I’ve worked in many factories. It’s standard practice.
Even our small HAAS CNC machines are bolted to the floor. I live in the midwest. We dont have large earthquakes. The machines weigh 25000lbs.
Only an idiot doesn't bolt their machines, regardless of earthquakes.
Bolting down machinery is common in heavy industry . Many large machines MUST have separate foundations of 2feet reinforced concrete + bolted down , otherwise the machine builder won't even sell you the machine . Other reason is that it helps with ridgidity , milling and punching operations generate a lot of force/vibrations and wanna move the machine . I actually have a problem at my workplace on the horizontal milling machine that i work on. I can feel the concrete vibrating under my feet at only 5-10 percent of spindle load ! . The owner cheaped out on machine foundations..... Seismic events.... could be , i don't think so .
I didn't realize Lian Li made cases for networking gear and such. Pretty cool.
How about a tour of the facility that makes those “100% Japanese capacitors”
Glorious nippon steel folded 10000 times
In Taiwan!
Its same as chineese, but different material, qc and human resources
AmusiaPrussia Made the same way and uses same steel as Katanahs
@@Amusia727 Did you know that they fold the steel to remove impurities? Steel made with no impurities does not need to be folded.
The more folding needed the less the quality of the steel to begin with.
..starts with a "C" and rhymes with demonetized.
Voldemort
cool... as in COOLED BY FANS POWERED BY BE QUIET! POWER PLATINUM PSU!
Everytime I visit this channel, I got a creative way in saying that word...
fuck it the comment section don't have censorship, that word is CHI......NA
@@hk_brit_fisher Uh, no, it's not. Super fail.
@@GamersNexus Ahh i know it's that certain spanish Beer brand. In English that word is Crown or Krone in German... in spanish its "Human Malware". XD
Surprisingly not the largest ceiling crane I've seen.
Paper mills have 90 ton cranes to move rolls that will become toilet paper.
Now THOSE are big. Saw some at GPI, absolutely enormous.
Shhhh don't tell the Americans, theyll raid the factories next
@@jasonbayer2452 lol where do u think most of the tp and raw paper is made that is used in america. hint the states are known for mainly cheese, lakes and car manufacturing.
My hubby ran a 400 ton overhead crane that moved/poured a ladle at a steel factory, it was a big boi
@@jasonbayer2452 Aussies too!
This is 10x better than any ad company can make. Once you see how much effort is required to make single product, You start to look at it differently and appreciate what you're buying. Also I love how its made videos.
"Starts with C and rhymes with demonatized" love the dry humor steve.
So how long until there is a Gamers Nexus case being produced in this factory?
The best airflow the world has ever seen and anit-RGB capabilities.
@@RobAryeeArc airflow without fans
@@RobAryeeArc coated in vantablack
Starting to think the factory tour videos are just a convenient side benefit of this trip. 🤩
a colab between GN and DerBauer Li-Lian case
I’m always amazed that there’s so much metal accessible on earth that we’ve been making stuff at this scale for ages and will continue to without it even being crazy expensive.
What's even crazier is our sun isnt even big/dense enough to make it and stops at Carbon.
Enjoy your mindfuck of the day.
formdoggie5 I thought everything after iron was only made in super novas and stuff and iron was the heaviest element that could be made in any star nevermind a tiny one like ours.
@@radicalxedward8047 Each star can make up to a certain atom by its capacity for nuclear fusion. *THE MOST* are made during supernova events though. Supernova usually occur after a star of adequate size creates too much nickel and iron (usually the highest end of production as that's when the nucleosynthesis becomes a net loss in energy). That's when the rubber banding in diameter begins uncontrollably leading to one of the myriad of star death options (like a supernova).
Funfact: the Sun has around 6 or 7000 times as much iron as the Earth inside it. And there are proposed ways to get it out and use it, if you're advanced enough as a civilization.
Check out Isaac Arthur's episode on starlifting.
@@demoniack81 you'd think asteroid mining would be easier?
15:06 the chinese character 研磨 is more like grinding, a coffee grinder in chinese also consists of those 2 words. the official name of the purpose of this machine seems to be deburring.
Nice to see you here in Taiwan again Steve! Next time come visit the South.
On a side note...a lot of stuff in my household or what my wife buys is MIT...Made in Taiwan 👍👌
MIT normally actually means good quality and locally made. Well...Steve should know...
We went to Tainan and Taizhong for a day this time! That'll be up in a few days.
@@GamersNexus ehm..TSMC Fab18? 😂
Love the video guys! However one small mistake: N2 is not used for cooling the laser. N2 is a purge gas that comes out of the laser cutting head to clear out material as it cuts. These machines generally have big liquid water coolers that cool down bend mirrors (the videos laser is a c02 laser) or other components inside the machine. Source: I am a laser operator
LIAN LI is two syllables in Chinese. LIAN is read like "alien" without the "a"... LIAN means link and LI means power.
NEIL DE is one syllables in English. NEIL DE is read like "thanks" with the "a"... THANKS means thanks and THANKS means thanks.
@@VGScreensDE as in Definitive edition? Degrasse Tyson? Deutschland?
*LEE AND LEE*
Man i absolutely love these videos, it is so interesting to see how things are made
I really apriciate an inside look into all these factory tours. Its very informative about the build process that we rarely get to see. Great job Steve and all the crew from Gamer nexus.
Love watching these tour videos, thanks GN keep up the good work
I love these factory tours! GN does a fantastic job on the videos about them!
Still use my Lian Li PC-60 from 2001. The Aluminum used back then is really thick so they are super strong and made to last forever.
I love these factory tour videos! So glad you guys took another trip this year!!👍
I think it is awesome how you are showing the manufacturing processes behind PC components. Not everyone understands manufacturing and what goes into the products they buy. I believe this will give most a better appreciation for the products they buy.
Videos like these are why I subscribed. Keep them coming. Thank You.
"How its Made" Tech Jesus Addition ...I can hear the music in my head.... but... the way Tech Jesus was narrating had the same flow and way of talking as the narrator in the US version of "How it's Made"
Love these types of videos. Thumbs up.
Always like the factory tours, great work as always! This one is pretty similar to what I do at work(Sheet metal worker/ CNC Operator) so it's very interesting to see another perspective!
These videos are awesome! Keep doing them.
CZcams removed this from my subscription feed, but I found it anyway. Great vid
If you make it that far up to the supply chain and want to save a buck on travel, I work in a steel mill in Welland Ont. Canada. We produce raw steel from recycled metal products that is sent to rolling mills and the like.
Loved the video... Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the factory tours. Really cool.
People love "How It's Made" series and you guys don't get it?
WE LOVE SEEING HOW PEOPLE MAKE STUUUFFFFFF!!!!
As a mechanical engineering student and PC enthusiast, I really enjoy these videos. Thanks!
Next I want injection molding facilities showing how plastic panels or made. Or the Frankenstein facility that makes the DIY PC cases with a mix of tooling
You guys are so awesome for doing these
I'm a "how it's made" kinda guy. Thanks for sharing this video. I really like LianLi products.
I will always find this stuff interesting and i am so glad you make videos like this :)
Same, I like not to in to deep how it's made video's, like the current series with Richard Hammond called Richard Hammond's Big (big structures/buildings boats/....)
Love the tours!
Just received a NCASE M1 shipped directly from Lian Li, Keelung, Taiwan. It's nice to be able to see their factory!
I love the tours, keep up the amazing work
Absolutely love this kind of content, keep them coming
Acha
Love this type of video. Thanks!
Surprised at the difference between manufacturing in Taiwan and China. Those factories and machines looked just like something in the US. Don't remember ever seeing an Amada, a top tier machine, during a factory tour in China.
Indeed, this looks extremely similar to all the US die and stamping shops I've seen.
Can't wait to see the next step lol. Oddly satisfying to see such huge machines doing little bitty things like holes
Amazing video
"Starts with a C, and ends with demonetized" lmao, it's been a while since I actually laughed out loud at a youtube video. Thanks for the great video, I've been loving your factory tour series, you guys definitely earned my beer glass purchase
I worked for a steel company doing IT work at their various mills and HQ for a few months, and that place looks very familiar. They didn't do the fabrication of anything, though, they just produced the giant rolls of different grades of steel and shipped them out in that form. Those places are LOUD, and all the gigahuge equipment that manipulates rolls of material that weighs more than most buildings is amazing. I was always excited when I got to see them just move stuff around using those gigantic cranes built into the ceiling. I never did get to see them pouring molten steel out of the gigantic blast furnaces, though, just didn't happen to be there when they were doing it. One interesting tidbit about those things, they never turn them off. If something happens and they need to turn it off and actually let the furnace cool down, it does a lot of damage and has to be repaired, then it takes DAYS to get it back up to temperature. So it would run continuously for years and years.
I like these 'how its made' videos, because ironically enough, they are more in-depth
Actually pretty cool... Thanks for sharing!
solid content. interesting and informative at the same time.
Lian Li manufactures the Ncase M1 and FormD T1, their flexibility is great for people who want to do small volume case production or even Lian Li for prototyping.
I have been a big fan of them for a long time from a build quality standpoint.
This video series is sweet.
This is why things "cost so much". Because even with automation, everything goes through multiple processes of manufacture even after the design and test phases.
Every time i deal with folks internally at my auto oem, its good enough that onsite suppliers will work with you to determine who's at fault, but all the things i've ran across, most were tier 1 (who supplies final part we use) faults. It can cost each company a lot of money each time a defect is found....and MFG will milk and tack on every associated man hour that can be when parts quality issues an investigation and charges it all back to supplier. Some companies are better at process improvement and holding everyone accountable, but i swear to god if we didn't have one of our suppliers engineers hop on a plane to tell me an obvious visual (headlight optic thing) issue wasn't an issue because design didn't require that as a spec. I was like, "ok, well lets just have people crash because its like driving with a lamp shade over the output and see if thats per spec and argue about that when the lawyers get involved." Lol ...on another note, some companies are also really great at accepting a defect and taking immediate action with Q3 (temp) and Q4 (finalized and "fullproofed") countermeasures but everyone is different. Love working in quality engineering as it opens your eyes up to all sorts of craziness that is never seen from beyond the MFG world.
Makes me appreciate my Lian Li cases even more when I see all the work involved in their creation.
You're joking mate, this is Gold for people who enjoyed those "How it's made" shows! And possibly even better for the ones of us who wanted them to go more in-depth!
This was fascinating, thank you
I think I like these videos so much because they get me feeling nostalgic for the times I watched HowStuffWorks and How It's Made as a child.
I love these vids. I find it fascinating how the things I buy are made.
This is excellent content, thank you!
Manufacturing really is a world of its own. I spent a couple of years in the food industry, and you'd think that'd be fairly simple but yeah, it's not. So many machines doing crazy precision work, all the packaging details and such.. Things get very complicated, very quickly. It's paradise for engineers who are just obsessed to get to the bottom of how things work, hehe. Glamorous it ain't, but fascinating - hell yeah.
Eagerly looking forwards to future tours. :)
Great work, your video production quality is higher than most TV shows.
Very interesting content. Thank you!
Great Job
As a mechanical engineer who designs machinery - I love this stuff. Keep it coming. Cheers
for the coolermaster cases you need to got to a "Plastic factory tour in Taiwan"
Let's see Paul Allen's factory tour.
It super interesting to see this kind of stuff. It's easy as a consumer to forget, or to just be unaware of just how much effort goes into manufacturing even simple items, and how complicated supply chains can be.
Cool to see all the steps that go into computer parts. Keep up the cool videos
Good timing, just bought a lian li 011d xl. Should b an interesting watch!
The Gamers nexus How its made series... keep up your work...
Thanks GN, very cool
love this, thank you.
Manufacturing videos are fascinating. I was watching the food processing ones on the weekend. Ice creams, potato chips/crisps, etc.
the metal bending machines are usually called sheetmetal brakes
Thanks. Names are lost since they don't normally have a literal translation.
@@GamersNexus Hey that's what us commenters are here for right?
That and yelling about thermal paste application
The nitrogen for the laser cutter is not just for cooling but it also works as an assist gas to help with quality of the cut. As an assist gas, nitrogen gas is expelled around the laser head similar to how you use a inert gas when welding to prevent oxidation of the metal while welding or in this case welding. My senior project for my mechanical engineering degree involved removing scrap metal that was blown onto the surface of the cut part by the nitrogen assist gas used by the same 4kW amada cnc laser.
It's amazing to watch all the crazy steps that go into products and design elements I don't normally give a moment's thought to. Steve/GN: you're way better at this than the How It's Made TV series or its clones, which always left me feeling like I'd not really understood much of what I was shown. I guess this comes down to domain-specific knowledge & probably also effort expended in the writing and editing. Regardless, really impressive work, thank you!
This is the best computer tech channel on CZcams.
3:26 Worker Possessed or playing charades?
Looks like he's explaining a story or something to the other co-worker.
Malfunctioning Asian.
Very cool!
Man this stuff is so cool
i love those videos
Quality wire stock with low impurities is a big deal for hold heading. Even with only a few inclusions in an entire reel, parts manufactured with these defects can sometimes slip through to the customer. Chargebacks and additional sorting procedures can take a profitable part and sink it into negative revenue really fast.
I work security at a steel mill here in America that makes rolls like what they're using. I was always curious what places that receive them look like. Now I have an idea at least!
My brother worked at a steel mill where they make those rolls. Someone tried to steal a roll by pushing off a stack into their pickup truck. It crushed the pickup truck.
It was Geneva Steel in Provo Utah. I toured the place once and it was absolutely amazing. My favorite part was the "oxygen lance" used to clear blocked pour spouts.
I wasn't given a tour of the inside, so I just see what's going in and out at the gates.
But yeah those rolls are way heavier than they look, even a semi-truck can only carry two or three at most - most trucks only take out one. Even one sometimes bulges the deck under the weight.
Premium quality. Two words that have been so overused, i can only see them as 'we've been cutting corners and this product is shit but we'll still market them as the best'. When are humans ever gonna realize that hyperbole and dishonesty are only gonna screw them over?
i love these sort of videos, i was thinking the other day how they made something and was gonna look it up now i forgot what it was...bad times guess ill learn about pc cases instead lol
I worked at a place that flattenned rolls of sheet metal and cut them to whatever the customer wanted, and packed them for shipping. They used rollers to flatten the rolls, nothing close to a hammer, what most use. The metal gets bent passed it's "bend memory" a couple times; then, like any bending, it's bend passed the target any and is flat after spring back. I doubt there's any hammer mechanism.
We manualled pulled bad pieces. If there was a dent in the roll, the cutter opperator would try to cut around while waisting as little as possible.
Can't wait for the Gamers Nexus tour of the sun, where all our current metals has been made in the past, and new ones in production that will never be mined.
Hopefully not the last in this series, b/c Steve still needs to go to the big bang where the original idea of the metals itself has been laid down for us to use and adapt in the future.
These videos are always fascinating. Its like a much more interesting version of "How its Made" for nerds.
Yeay! more factory pron!
the LN2 does NOT cool the laser, (it's watercooled by it's own chiller) it's evaporated and blown through the nozzle at a fair bit of pressure to clear molten material, keeping it liquid is just a more practical way of storing and transporting when you need so much of it.
And as for the bending machine (break press really) - it IS automated. The operator is just pressing a pedal and feeding in the sheet to be bent as he's being told by the machine...the machine sets the backstops, position and pressure being exerted on the dies automatically.
I'm shocked why somehow it's relevant to the price of cases with the manufacturing processes that hybridize both human-machine teamworking. Fantastic video, Steve.
I spit out my coffee when I saw Roman casually eating pizza in the background at 1:37.
Very cool. I thought this one would seem mundane compared to the boxes and screws (which were awesome!) but it's much more complex than I thought and seems dangerous too. The workers on those machines have to be careful... sharp bits of metal and aggressive punches and cutting machines all around. Neat to see all of that, thanks guys!
I have had experience with that style of turret punch. it really vibrates a building when its going full bore!
Im here to support your content and your algorithm. Stay safe while traveling in the independent nation of Taiwan
wow those are dangerous words... and frankly unnecessarily redundant
Very cool
i just bought a 3900x and a silverstone RL06 to replace my HAF932 based on your glowing review and comparable air flow :)
Me: A metal worker with 20+ years of experience, making a custom PC case from the ground up...
This video: You're gonna have some challenges along the way, young grasshopper.
What I saw here is things I've seen for a very long time. Sure Laser cutters are "new" (OK, so I've been associated wtih YAG laser for nearly 20 years), but yea. Much of this is nothing new. Matter of fact, having lived in Automotive stamping plants 30 odd years ago 99% of the stamping area was developed 100 years or more ago.
@@WreckDiver99 We never said any of it is new.
@@WreckDiver99 A startling number of WW2 era machines are still used in daily operations. Not a problem as long as they work, but spare parts starts to be a pain point.
@@GamersNexus Oh I know...but watching this you'd think all of that was new tech. "they sell their scrap to another company"...umm, yea, we have stamping plants in the USA that are 100 years old, and they've been doing it since they were built. UGH...Yet people that have no idea about it are all "THAT'S what xyz country is doing wrong"...UGH.
@@WreckDiver99 Yeah. The thing is Taiwan is small, has great infrastructure and is close to cheap labor. Things like those make them super competitive on price compared to the US or Europe.
1:36 video reference is here “1pk4KnLFtDM?t=70” with Roman standing with “为幸福加热(heating for joy)” box of pizza🤤
Who knew I'd be so excited to click a video like this
These are ridiculously interesting! Just one thought, it would be nice to hear some of the background factory noise from time to time, just to get more of an idea of the working environment. Love the show Steve.