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Super Factories: UPS
Thursday 4 September @ 9:00pm HK/SIN
 When
it absolutely has to get from Point A to B, overnight, or even in
hours…every day, millions depend on UPS. To the tune of four
billion packages each year. Step inside the largest, most efficient
and high-tech automated delivery system on the planet. More than a
courier, UPS is a transportation network of staggering proportions,
complete with a meteorology center, a flight-simulation training hub,
and the eighth largest airline fleet in the world. And at the heart
of it all is their Ultimate Factory in Louisville, Kentucky, a pulsing,
pounding, 24/7, four million square foot one-of-a-kind technological
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Super Factories: Caterpillar
Thursday 11 September @ 9:00pm HK/SIN
 A
truck the size of a two-story house, strong enough to carry 380 tons,
at 25- feet tall 3550 horsepower, -more than 30 Ferraris - this is
the biggest mining truck in the world, the colossal 797 B. Built in
the USA in Decatur Illinois, It's job? Move material at high volume
and low cost. But how do you build a two-story goliath. It requires
a specialized factory were everything is super sized - from the plasma
cutters and weld- guns to the torque tools and hand wrenches. Imagine
installing a 12-foot wheel or an engine bigger than a car. From basic
blue print to the completed mega truck, we'll follow the building
of CAT's most colossal creation on Superfactories!. |
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