Sandy Tours IDRA Facilities | 9,000 Ton Giga Press 

A big thank you to Sandy Munro and his team for coming to see us and then posting this informative video!

IDRA's spokesperson in this video is top notch. I appreciate how he's able to engage both Sandy _and_ the audience seamlessly. You can tell he's quite comfortable and experienced with both human interaction and being on camera.

That was impressive. Engineering on an absolutely massive scale. Hats off to these guys; they really know their stuff.

I'm so excited to watch this IDRA tour. Such an important company. The Italian people should be really proud of them :) True European innovation

Idra is from my town in Italy: really proud of this Italian excellence

It's awesome to see Sandy getting nerdy with an engineer. You can see how excited he is about his work. No marketing BS here, just raw engineering nerdiness. I love it!

Cool stuff! As a machinist who has made stuff on a much smaller scale over the years, I would of love to see the machines that actually do the "machining" to these huge parts. They must be absolutely massive.

Loved the openness of the Idra tour team and the way Sandy let them explain without needless interruptions. A class act all round.

Italy has superb engineering skills and facilities. I’ve toured a few of their manufacturing factories and their overall designs and the tooling that makes and machines the components are generally second to none.

I used to work with high pressure diecasting machines in the 80's. One of the early projects I was involved in was replacing a worn out (unreplaceable and increasingly unreliable) mechanical timer used to sequence the injection phases. We built a custom controller based on a 6800 microprocessor that enabled the timing of the hydraulic valve actuations. I also assisted in commissioning a used Idra press that they bought. A key skill in the foundry was the metallurgy, the lab had a spectrum analyser to QA the aluminium for the correct alloys. That was also interesting to work on, as callouts were at least 24 hours delayed, I was allowed to try to fix it when it broke down, as there was no production without QA of the materials.

I like how Sandy reiterates three minutes of explanations in one sentence.

Let's thanks the truckers and logistics workers for their roll in getting these machines to Tesla. It' s team effort. Fascinating report.

Holy crap! everything is HUGE at IDRA, unbelievable that this all works as intended. The masses, speed and accuracy is mind blowing!

Congratulations on achieving 300K ! 600K will happen even faster! You've been a credit to manufacturing and the incredible talent to be found in all forms of engineering!

I found Fiore easier to listen to. He started out by stating what the largest constraint was (customers want shorter injection times), then the implications of that constraint (faster movement, which makes stopping the machine and in particular stopping the hydraulic fluid more difficult), and then what they did to meet that constraint (more pumps and moving the valves to the moving platen itself to minimize the volume and mass of hydraulic fluid past the valves). Subtitle guy did a good job.

The audience Munro & Associates commands now is basically a stadium of people. Thanks for bringing this to the masses and making the information accessible for the curious. There is so much insight and value being “a fly on the wall” watching M&A.

As an Electrical Engineer, this was jaw dropping for me. Thank you Sandy and IDRA. 👍👍🇺🇸

Holy crap, that was amazing and the IDRA hosts were so gracious and knowledgeable. I'm not sure if they understood the gravitas of Sandy's praise though. Thanks for sharing Team Munro!

What a great video. Would love to do another interview with Sandy. Last one was AMAZING.

Mind blowing - tons of steel and liquid metal accelerating and decelerating in sub-second time-frames. And doing this again and again, 24-7! Well done Idra. You have earned the right to own the Giga-press name.

Incredible machines! I really appreciate being able to see and hear the discussion about how they work and are made.

Mind blowing. Making real engineering COOL.

Excellent video. They are speaking my language, having worked for Husky injection molding for 23 years.

Thanks to Tesla for making this tour a reality. Munro couldn’t convince OEMs to build a casting machine even half the size of the GIGAPRESS. IDRA wasn’t even sure if it was possible. Musk asked 5 casting machine companies to build the gigapress. 4 of them said it was impossible and IDRA said, “it might work”. Musk took that as a “Yes”. IDRA believed in their engineers to take the journey with TESLA. Fun to see Sandy’s mind blown…

27:58 the real italian speaking italian in the background 🤌🤌 Proud to be 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Wow, things like this wil change our world 😊

Thanks Sandy for the amazing tour and CONGRATS to 302,000 Subs!!!

Incredible engineering and a great showcase for Italian design. Congratulations.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SOOOO LONG!!! THANK YOU, SANDY!!!

Holy Macaroni!!! Having worked around machinery of this size, I can appreciate what is at stake when designing and testing. The amount of mass and time cycles is absolutely awesome. Just thinking about those huge steel shafts being used as a spring gives one pause. Great tour!!

I was in Verona during this time, I should have went. IDRA is amazing. Italy is a top manufacturer of everything related to fluids.

Congratulations to Munro and all associates…. On your 300,000 mile stones….. looking forward to 1million viewers in the next 5 years…. Been watching Munro Live from the beginning…. Keep up with the great work!!

enjoyed every second of this video. I am super impressed. IDRA can be very, very proud of themselves. Thanks for helping Tesla to become better every day. Tesla with, amongst other innovations, IDRA rules the house. The rest pays rent.

Thanks so much Sandy to share the Italian’s expertise in machinery around the world. I’m very proud of it. John is a super host

Amazing! As a youth in the '70 and living in Milano, I often passed IDRA on the motorway. I was into plastics, but the injection processes are similar! Compliments to Italian genius!

Munro has opened a whole new world for me. Never before did I care about this kind of machining until I discovered Tesla and Munro. I am enjoying this learning journey immensely. My background is elec. eng. in the medical imaging field, very far removed from a 9000 ton Gigapress! Great work Sandy and associates.

Italy has very beautiful machinery suppliers and manufacturers. It is good to see that Idra is taking advantage of that.

Fascinating. I too started off life as a tool maker (for Tecalemit) and making moulds was an art, it's now a science and it's fascinating how we have progressed in the last 50-60 years. My first lathe, as an apprentice had 3.5 turns of backlash on the feed handle and the bed had wear in the bed-ways, now look at the precision we can achieve

Most of it was way over my head- but still very interesting and eye-opening. I knew the Giga-Presses were large- but I had no idea of the size of the 9000 Ton machine. Impressive! It looks like it could die-cast our entire house in one 200ms burst of molten aluminum... Thanks, Sandy and Company for this amazing video!

Sandy and the munro guys congratulations! Keep up the good work, very interesting stuf as always, thanks!

Absolutely fantastic to watch!!! We are in a whole new era of youtubing with this stamping explaned and the 4680 cell by Gordon. Amazing!!!

Cool to see Sandy overcome language barriers and communicate through the universal language of engineering.

Thank you Sandy.

300k!!! Thank you Sandy and team!

Thanks Sandy for letting us know better the engineering behind GigaPresses. It’s truly fascinating and make me so proud of italian entrepreneurship 🇮🇹

Loved how Sandy patted the engineer on the back and told him well done. The engineer really appreciated the appreciation 👍

I am thoroughly impressed by the sheer size and precision of those machines.

We seem to be living in the most interesting time of engineering and manufacturing in the last several thousand years at least. Thank you Munro and Associates for documenting this history and making it digestible and fascinating to even the regular non-mechanics and engineers like me. These videos will educate and inspire people for years to come

It seems like fate that Tesla and IDRA are working together and that IDRA named their massive presses the "Giga-press" just as Tesla named their massive factories "giga-factories". We are witnessing the marriage of the auto revolution of EVs with the manufacturing revolution of high-volume mega-casting. People gett hyped about 3D printing, but this is just as significant in many ways. Henry Ford greatly improved the manufacturing of automobiles with the assembly line, now Elon is once again improving the manufacturing of automobiles by using IDRA's presses. It's really amazing what IDRA has accomplished here.

It's great to see the happy and positive reaction from the person giving the lecture when he (or she) recognises that the audience actually understands what is being taught.

I just love that my foundry industry is getting some love! I've probably been to the shop that is making all those massive steel castings, Sheffield? Voestalpine? Sande Stahlguss? In Italy perhaps?

Wow, so massive. What a great tour. Thanks for posting!

If I’m not mistaken this 9 ton press is headed for giga Austin and will one day be pumping out cyber castings. Really quite an amazing machine. It’s great to see Tesla supporting Italian heavy industry.

Sandy, Killer tour - learned a bunch! 🙂

Truely a video for engineers. Loved hearing about the efficiency of their large presses

WORLD CLASS ENGINEERING AND CONTENT🤔👏👏👏👏👏👏

That was impressive! Thanks for sharing the tour with us!

Very interesting video and I'm very proud of this is engineering and made in Italy. Complimenti per la tecnologia e l'innovazione.

Just wow… thank u for bringing this engineering marvel to us

I love that guy John. You can tell he super passionate about the possibilities here. He knows his machines.

Hello Sandy, Thank you and your team for some amazing videos.

You can see the gears turning in Sandy's head as he stares intently and absorbing everything in sight! I know the feeling.

I've heard Taurus, the gun maker I believe in Brazil, use a type of molten metal injection. But using steel or steel alloys. It works very similar to plastic mold injection. All these technologies, plus 3D metal printing is changing our manufacturing paradigm. I love this channel Munro Rocks!

Now 373K subscribers BRAVO!!! Well deserved...

The machine that makes the machine that makes the machine.

Hydraulic engineering heaven. Lots of manifold system and cartridge valves. There is a lot of flow going on. 🤩

So happy you guys are part of this community!!

AND CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 🍻🥂🥃TO MONROE AND ALL YOUR ASSOCIATES FOR HITTING 302,000 subs and I am VERY THANKFUL TO BE ONE OF THEM 🙋‍♂️

It's rellay cool to learn about the massive upgrades IDRA had to come up with to meet Tesla's cycle time requirements. Great video!

Really good in depth tour, thanks to Sandy and IDRA Group

That was really interesting. I have worked with injection molding of plastic for most of my life, but with smaller machines. The forces involved here are just amazing. I guess that the hardest part is to make the machine survive the forces it introduce to itself.

Loved seeing the Tesla Red components. Glad to Know Giga Texas is still set for success. Thanks for the amazing video and info I really can't get anywhere else!

Excellent information! Thanks Sandy and crew

Sandy Munro in Italia! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Congrats Sandy, Corey and team! Great job and you deserve every single sub and more! Look forward to the next 600k and it will come, keep producing great quality stuff…

Wow Sandy ! & IDRA ! I'M so impressed... Nothing beats great Engineering 👍 and Engineers at work. I've had this privilege 2x in my career Internationally. Well Done in Italy 🇮🇹 👏 👍

Kind of mind-blowing to be honest. after seeing the entire seating arrangement hooked to the battery pack of a Tesla and assembled as a single unit... this is just insane. Talk about engineering innovations.

I have a LOT of favorite channels, and I can't think of one who could even competently transrcibe this video in a way that makes sense, let alone ask the questions Sandy did. Amazing.

Congrats and kudos, Sandy.

Sandy looks so totally overwhelmed the whole time. Really fun video!

Amazing enormous machines. Love the tour!

Well done Sandy! A big thanks....

Wow there really gearing up for about a dozen presses a year. That is wonderful.

That's what you call a factory. Thanks for a very interesting tour. A big thanks to IDRA. You just got a new subscriber.

All the other companies said "No" and IDRA said... "Maybe". Glad they weren't afraid to literally break the mold and do something else. Thank You Sandy for taking us directly to the source! Now quit working to go back to vacation.

Whenever I talk to anyone about Tesla or EV manufacturing in general, I tell them to check out your channel and to hit the Subscribe button. I grew up in Detroit during the 60s and 70s, surrounded by so many people who worked in the automotive industry during that time and for the past 45 years many friends of mine went into the automotive industry in one capacity or another. As a result, I very much enjoy and appreciate the videos you produce. Thankyou!

Wow! Stopping 240 tons in 50 mm(2 inches)!

Fascinating Interview Sandy👏👏

This was an epic video. Sandy actually look pretty impressed. I wonder if legacy Auto will figure it out, before it's too late..

Mamma Mia. Next Year's IDRA Annual Event should be Awesome. Thanks for Sharing

i clicked on this so fast i hurt My finger. IDRA is making possible something that is hard to comprehend, without imagination and application. it ain't enough to just think about something. I bet the Sandy Munro mind is just whirling right now.

MUNRO and Associates is one of the BEST advertising that TESLA could ask for. And all honest and factual info from Sandy Munco !

How must it feel for Sandy to see _his vision_ made manifest by some very big brains;) How grateful we are for Sandy! ♥️ Seeing Tesla's giga-presses in production at IDRA is amazing, with much thanks to IDRA for making this happen. 👏 Now MunroLive -----------> let's see that 4680 pack!💥

Wow, what a company. Great presentation and amazing engineering. The knowledge shown is breath taking.

Amazing video. Would love to see a Giga Press in action some day. Perhaps building a CyberTruck component.

Italian pride in engineering and craftsmanship. I bet they feed their employees well too! 😁

Engineering porn, love it. The Northern Italy fabricator network has clearly withstood the test of time, too. Thanks for this glimpse.

Very impressive Could watch stuff like this all day.

I could cry. When we think of Italy, many think of political “keystone-cop” type chaos and instability … but we should think of engineering excellence and superb professionalism.

Great work Sandy!! You are KILLING IT!!!