This German Machine Tool Factory is Bigger Than Your Hometown!

[@ib5454]

I'm happy to see so many good comments, Greetings from a GROB employe.

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

Do you have a production site in Männedorf, Switzerland? I assume there are not many companies with the name Grob.

[@INSIGHTCO]

Man, I would love to have a tour as well!!!! This is amazing!

[@tristanpatterson3843]

How the energy costs biting? Any signs from management about cost cutting?

[@flopflop5770]

@@thearchibaldtuttle Thats probably Grob AG, which is a different Company.

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

@@flopflop5770 Dr. Ernst Grob founded the Firma Ernst Grob Werkzeug- und Maschinenfabrik in 1926. In 1962 he founded the Grob AG in Maennedorf. Same founder but two different companies now.

[@Yora21]

A lot of German industry is not making consumer products, but making the tools to make consumer products. Since their customers are other factories, you never see their brands on any shelves. but it's a huge industry most people have never heard of.

[@moneyneversleeps.europe]

Instead of being the plug, we rather the guy supplying the plug’s plug

[@BarthiArgento]

Companies like these are often called “hidden champions”

[@TheKilaby]

@@BarthiArgento thats only partly the definition of a hidden champion. A hidden champion is an unknown medium to large sized company with a revenue of around 50Million or more and most important is the or one of the market leaders in their field.

[@jonny2954]

@@BarthiArgento Of about 4000 “hidden champions” worldwide around 1,700 are based in Germany.

[@TheYoutubeUser69]

klasssisches deutsches mittelstandsunternehmen: 300 angestellte, jahresumsatz: 1,453Mrd lmao

[@wacholder5690]

Thanks for showing. Not to forget one thing: This is a largely private owned, family-based company. They don't need to care for the pleasure of "share holders". Just do business. 🙂

[@Fry_tag]

There are so many German engineering and manufacturing companies like this. Family owned, family run and market leader in highly specialized fields. They also love to just name the companies after themselves.

[@wacholder5690]

@@Fry_tag Like "Dr. Oetker" ... After I picked Dr. Oetker for my "house medic" there's way more Pizza and Pudding in my life. Well: Or Heckler & Koch while we're on engineering. 😁

[@christophv.3274]

Those family-based companies aren't always a good thing. They are part of the reason of the big wealth gap in Germany. Unlike big stock-listed companies, those companies often don't offer employees to get some shares of the company and therefore profit from the success of the company. I know a lot of people, that work for Rheinmetall (german tank manufacturer). Especially the long term employees got rich in the last 2 years, because their stocks, which got subsidized by the company, grew massively in value. Also many of these big family own companies are in their 3rd generation. By now they are managed by foreign CEOs and the family behind it grew over time. The long term thinking isnt given then anymore.

[@qgxii]

No need to care for share holders? What do you think the family who owns the company are? The profit just goes into the family pocket instead of being democratized. Also it's a great injustice that the kids of those families can inherit billions of € worth of company shares without paying taxes, while any other citizen hardly can inherit the house of their parents without paying/taking a loan.

[@hypatian9093]

@@qgxii "democratized"? That's like the old picture of normal people having some shares - nowadays shares are held by banks + companies through funds, and they "have expectations" ;)

[@Alex-ye8qp]

Bro knows his facility to perfection thats crazy, he instantly had every answer

[@iansandusky417]

Right? Carsten knew his stuff inside and out - no cheat sheets and he was a super cool dude too!

[@carstenkonig3044]

thank you Alex

[@SiggiTh]

He's German, this is what they do - especially managers. Not to mention that his name is literally Carsten King! (König/Koenig = King ... I'm 99% sure, but then again it's been a long time since I was in Germany learning the language - a short summer back in the 90's ;) Grossartige Arbeit! Grüsse aus Island 🇮🇸

[@adddude7524]

And he has the perfect German engineer accent. Without the accent it would feel wrong.

[@Alex-ye8qp]

@@adddude7524 Absolutely

[@dwiss2556]

My German engineer heart beats proudly!

[@BumblebeesEngin]

Same...i just wanna lay down on that clean floor. i know that'd be totally a case for a "Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus" Video, but i just love machine shops like that. when i was younger i always helped my dad repair installations. We'd come in when the company closed to repair so i had the halls to myself. It was great and its honestly one of my fondest memories with my dad.

[@VoodooMcVee]

Something funny just occurred to me... 'Grob' means 'coarse'. They are a big company that produces big manufacturing machines. And then there is also a company named 'Fein'. 'Fein' means 'fine'. They are a much smaller company that produces small handheld power tools. This is oddly fitting, I think 😄

[@DasIllu]

My brain started juggling "Grob" and "Fein" around to come up with a few stupid jokes.

[@SianaGearz]

They say, how you christen the boat, so will it sail.

[@Neeverseen]

It's just the surname of the company founder.

[@CavHDeu]

Grobe Wurst oder feine Wurst?

[@Xerlash]

but if you look at Fein's power tools, the result in comparison looks grob, because Grob's machining is very fein

[@michaeljenkins3347]

I was in the machine tool business all my life and knew of Grob but had no idea how big the company was. Absolutely superb.

[@alexanderroth1427]

Family owned Buisness since the 1920's like this show why "Made in Germany" it's not just some Words. It's a reputation German workers are proud of.

[@Linus1871]

Yes so lets make sure we vote right so companys like these dont start to move to china or something because they cant afford it anymore to produce in germany.

[@fasthand5019]

A so called hidden champion: World Class but not known world wide. Wirklich sehr beeindruckend! - Impressing!

[@matthiasbohm2593]

I guess within their industry segment their known to people working within worldwide like Apple, Nike and Pepsi are known to everyone else.

[@stennostenno1346]

That's german Mittelstand :)

[@Potion_Seller99]

You can see in his face that this man loves what he does.

[@normanberlin7348]

I bet after work he plays Satisfactory to relax

[@frederik3326]

So clean, thats what scifi movie production facilities look like to me

[@CavHDeu]

Still no transparent aluminum 🤔

[@matthiasbohm2593]

@@CavHDeu Geee, that was behind that curtain ... sit still and wait.

[@CavHDeu]

@@matthiasbohm2593 wir sind hier nicht in ner Arztpraxis

[@jamestamu83]

That looks more like a hospital operating room than a manufacturing shop! Immaculately clean and organized!

[@KarlKarpfen]

Good work is always done in clean shops. Those who don't care enough to keep their shop tidy just can't be able to care enough to make a perfect product.

[@M4xXxIkInG]

while it never gets filthy in any way i noticed a few spots which looked like they got some extra love before the video, epecially the production halls with the "driving room" and the huge mill. :D

[@mat_jas]

Check out the principle of the 5S system. It is like a religion for many companies in this part of the world.

[@SCYN0]

well thats germany for you. i worked in 6 factorys and all are simalary clean for the work weve done. sometimes i thought too clean bc your gonna keep your workplace clean af

[@jaapweel1]

the man is wearing bright white shoes…

[@michaelmueller9635]

Germany just loves understatement.

[@danielczoller3395]

Using Imperial Units in Germany… Biggest insult what i can imagine :D

[@obelic71]

The French invented the Metric system. The Germans thought mmm that makes sense lets improve. The British thought we don't like it because its not a British invention but we must amit its way easier to use then our imperial crazy rules system. The Americans: HELL NO !

[@fermitupoupon1754]

@@obelic71 meanwhile if you want to use measurements as documented in pre-metric Europe, you need to know who wrote them, when they wrote them, and where they wrote them. Because you need to know which set of units of measurement they were using. A mile could mean "1000 paces" or it could mean "an hours walking distance" or it could mean 10km, or it might just be a regular nautical mile. Similarly a foot could be 9 inches, or it might be 13. But that's not to say that a 10 inch foot is actually shorter than a 13 inch foot.

[@obelic71]

@fermitupoupon1754 I know, every village ,port ,region had different measurments. Even time was different. Only when the first wave of industrialization happend water, wind, horsecaroulsel powered mills and the canalisationbuild boom standardisation started to happen. Time zones's and standard main time of a country were needed when drawn canalbarges, mailcoaches, ocean going ships and later trains/omnibusses sailed/ran on a scheduled timetable.

[@marnig9185]

We only measure in Millimeter;)

[@okoeroo]

Not sure how school works in the USA, but all the imperial needs to be converted to metric for the formulas to work, right?

[@ColumbusDixon]

Wow! I’m so jealous. That’s the sort of industry you want in your country. And that guy - I’m assuming German speaking English? More than lucid. He knew his beans inside out and was proud of his company. Made my day.

[@carstenkonig3044]

Thank you!

[@jakebpau2396]

And dont forgetJoe Canada with the tats and backward ball hat!

[@iansandusky417]

@ Joe Canada hears ya, Joe Canada don’t care

[@quoll4961]

Worked in a simmilar factory for a while. These exist quite often in germany, many not as clean and tidy as this one but yeah this is not a one of a kind thing. We just specialise in niche products and try to be the best there 😂

[@RubenKelevra]

Yeah, he's German. I thought that's obvious from his accent?

[@jackabubba]

The world would be lost without Eurpoean Engineering and Manufacturing, especially German, Swiss and Swedish!

[@davidcheung8595]

Really? That scares the world. We demand the US and Qatar keep the LNG flowing.

[@jackabubba]

@davidcheung8595 what's so scary? Russia supplies Germany, only thing US did was blow up the Nordstresm pipeline. You do realise the world doesn't need the US.

[@icecube3645]

Not true, but thanks for the compliment.

[@jackabubba]

@@icecube3645 what makes you say that?

[@louies6914]

Have you heard of Mitsui Seiki from Japan? They make machines who are more precise than GROB will ever be. Europe had one company that did such machines, the Swiss SIP now only 50 employees and absorbed into the Starrag Group.

[@JestersHammer]

Absolut beeindruckend! Ein tolles Imagevideo für Grob.

[@expierreiment]

It's always amazing to see top level German engineering!

[@spdcrzy]

It's literally a city built for machines and automation that's inside a building, rather than machines and robots that were built for general use and then programmed to fit into place while moving in space on an assembly line inside a building. It makes automation so much easier from a conceptual level, since you can design machines and processes and everything else to NOT crash in the first place.

[@pierQRzt180]

From time to time youtube surprises me with cool unknown channels. I am no machinist but I like the tech there.

[@TotalyRandomUsername]

I did IT in several of such companies. It is interesting as hell and the workers are real fun guys.

[@Lwimmermastermetalart]

And now we know why the machines cost as much as they do! Worth every penny though. Best factory I’ve ever seen. Looks almost sterile in there.

[@MyGoldToken-ri5xc]

Well that was the crown of planning and experience in engineering. I wish GROB the best of the best in return because Germany does need functional Industries like very urgent. I am proud of technology and science from Germany and wherever I go around the world I keep promoting Made in Germany and teaching the requirements to achieve such standards. It was also fascinating observing the reaction of the american machinist grasping it on the spot. Thanks for the video.

[@mikethespike7579]

The size of this factory is no surprise to me. Germany is globally the second largest machine tool manufacturer and exporter after the US. As big as this factory here is, there are other German manufacturers who are just as large. Add to these the numerous small companies that specialise in custom machine tool builds you get a picture of just how big this industry is. What I noticed having worked with some of these companies is just how proud all the employees are of their work.

[@elloquero6543]

What???😂😂😂....The US are the biggest Producer of Tool Machines? Thats so not true im laughing the hole time!! The US Exports are so big while John Deere and Caterpillar are exists! You can look in Google, for Tool Machines the US is not very important! Its Germany, Japan Italy, Sweden, Suisse....everything what you build, we do it better!! In 90% of everything ( Specially planes and Cars)! Greetings from Hamburg/Germany✌️

[@mikethespike7579]

@@elloquero6543 John Deer and Caterpillar are not machine tool manufacturers. I'm an independent consultant engineer here in Germany with customers in the German automotive manufacturing industry. I often represent these at big machine tool manufacturers, one of them Gildemeister, one of the biggest in Europe. It's common knowledge among German machine tool manufacturers that the US is the bigger exporter of machine tools. Why you choose to rather believe some anonymous sources on Google is beyond me, but don't let me put you off believing BS.

[@u.p.1038]

The US??!! You must be joking...

[@mikethespike7579]

@@u.p.1038 No joke. The US is the largest manufacturer of machine tools. Or how do you think the US weapons industry manufactures all its weapons and ammo? By hand?

[@Mattias-mc1rm]

very clean factory, and everything is clean and lined up to perfection.. would be impressed if I ever saw that in a jobshop ;)

[@PeirotheFirescare]

I am just speachless right now. I am from Bavarai but I never knew that there is a factory like this. Simply amazing O.O

[@benjamindejonge3624]

This is heaven paradise for tool makers out of space

[@wotanderwilde]

Companies like this are the backbone of german Industry. Another thing i would like to point out is the fact that the Senior Manager knows the Place inside out, from the depth of the concrete to the diameter of the cutter head. Bosses like this you only find in these small, family lead buisnisses. Try to find this competence in a company that is listed at the stock market...like mine...

[@DerSolinski]

His wife: "I don't know what to do anymore, he changed since he was in Germany, he doesn't talk anymore"

[@iansandusky417]

I didn’t know you had a camera in my place!

[@DerSolinski]

@iansandusky417 It's baffling what Germans can achieve if they stubbornly dedicate themselves to something, isn't it? The only problem that this also includes both WWs... Let's hope there isn't a third that could animate us to do something stupid again 😑 Even tho the international political landscape really looks bleak currently. Optimism or so it's called 😅

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Send my wife

[@Arsenic71]

@@DerSolinski It'll be the US that pushes the world into WW3, no worries. And for example WW2 has created rocketry, the US would not have made it to the moon before the Soviets without German technology. Same with submarines, all of today's submarines are based on the German Type XXI. Zeiss built targeting optics for planes and warships, but today builds the optics without which ASML couldn't build the EUV machines that make all of today's computer chips. How typical for a German to always bring up the war. The world doesn't want to hear it anymore.

[@DarkSession6208]

@@DerSolinski Germans were so good organized and dedicated that when WW2 ended the soviets and the us had to keep them in place for generations to prevent any form of commitment. You can feel how bad its seen to be patriotic in germany. This also leads to people being less involved in each other or chasing goals together compared to back then. Germany could become a superpower (non military speaking) if this wasn't the case. But its politically wanted that germans are devote and kept in chains. Everything got regulated to death to prevent germans starting another WW or doing hitlerish things. The downside is we are basically kept in chains and can't show our full potential that big companies or manufacturers could. Germany could be a global leader in every technical application or product development and sales but we simply are not allowed to get too powerful, and now after many years its shows how China is basically doing what Germany could do if let free. VW being a major joke, other companies closing etc. because China is taking over and producing cheaper and better than Germans.

[@moos5221]

Makes me happy to see the display of such a company in Germany and that it's not been aquired by China (yet).

[@rosshart9514]

The recent German gouvernment is working hard to get rid of all these evil industry.

[@walther2492]

Less than two percent of German companies are in Chinese hands, so your comment literally makes no sense.

[@moos5221]

@@walther2492 You've seen the roboters they use? Greatest industrial roboter manufacturer in the world "KUKA", based not far from Grob was aquired by a chinese company in an unfriendly aquisition. My comment makes a lot of sense when you know how China expands globally, but it surely wouldn't make sense to someone who doesn't care.

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

​@@walther2492 only 2% of all companies? That's like saying "less than 2% of all cars are going to explode"

[@matthiasbohm2593]

@@walther2492 Two percent too much.

[@ebhaenger8246]

Imagine the confidence you need to have in your manufacturing + quality, that you just show how it's done, but know it won't be easy to copy let alone be better, for anyone.

[@silvervortex2441]

Holy cow! that’s a big ass factory.

[@iansandusky417]

Seriously! The footage doesn’t even do it justice!

[@jim5148]

Holy cow! I thought I had seen some big shops before.

[@ArthurField]

Oh man Ian, love that you got to tour here! Awesome work 😲

[@ninetenduh]

Hope their business is going good, many milling/turning companies are struggling these days, I work in that field myself and we and many others especially in chassis building are struggling. I also have to work on machines even older, our newest CNC is 2008, our oldest 1985, the conventional machines are all 90s or older as well. I'd imagine an apprenticeship there would be absolute bliss.

[@Macintoshiba]

Machines create machines create machines create machines. funky!

[@matthiasbohm2593]

Mr. @Macintoshiba, have you seen this woman, Sarah Connor?

[@matthiasbohm2593]

You missed the building with the T-800 production line ... 😀

[@fx707]

The city of Mindelheim has 15k people, GROB is so imporant and at the same time they are able to hire all that run this company on the level of perfection.

[@dermozart80]

The hidden star in this video is that poor guy programming all of this!

[@iansandusky417]

Definitely! Their applications guys and gals are second to none!

[@ropeburn6684]

Definitely not a poor guy, more like a well paid engineer 😂

[@satakrionkryptomortis]

nah bro. that guy is in retirement. they run on holy legacy scripts only fully understandable by the ancient once.

[@BB-sm8ey]

No. They are well paid. Well motivated. Intensely intelligent. At the pinnacle of their trade. I know a few German developers in that area, and they frighten me.

[@robsterenborg]

this is a great company and the best example of use what you sell

[@DavidDavid-zv1fv]

This is what german engeneering and made in germany really means, wow Im impressed

[@newhausr]

I had no idea of the scale engineering or machining can have, but this is just crazy, I'm impressed.

[@eLBehmo]

Now I wanna tour through the code base that runs all of this - especially the custom assembly lines!

[@MrMNRichardWright]

Machines replicating themselves.impressive

[@SBSOLOCO]

Forgot to show the best part about a Grob! The auto tool taper cleaner brush before it puts tools away. Haha Wicked machines!

[@lvxleather]

What a bad ass shop!

[@hmartinlb]

This is Satisfactory IRL

[@watchthe1369]

Movement and fixturing is wasted time do it as little as possible. They have taken the machines and "Palletized fixtures" to another level. 3 machines will be working a part at once instead of moving it. Just plain awesome.

[@johndunbar2393]

Imagine how much power this place needs to operate. My word..........

[@johannesfossi5561]

it's much less than you'd think

[@redwarf8118]

@@johannesfossi5561 how much does he think then? smh

[@RogerKeulen]

@@redwarf8118 Like a single batch from a steal manufactor. You know the other thing Germany is also famous for. Material design.

[@redwarf8118]

@@RogerKeulen thank you bot

[@luisbollwin4460]

576416 MWh last year. It says so in their sustainability report.

[@watchthe1369]

We need to get some of those people in the USA, Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi... The managers who know what an automated manufactory looks like and how to make it work like a family farm to do good steady business and production.

[@fre3z3r68]

The machines are really good and do a good job. I Work with a G552T, two G352T and a G752T that is not even a year old.

[@JohnWats-p8i]

"there is a grizzly bear behind it" :-D That guy is quick :)

[@greybeard9x44]

Very impressive. They must use some pretty good software to get these machines to give of their best! Well done!

[@Zurvanox]

Danke

[@natuerlichedummheit]

Ahhh ohhh yeah wow 😄 Nice and very interesting video!

[@peterpaul9320]

He knows his stuff and also in english!

[@teekteekteekteek]

Grob ❤ just different and I m loving it

[@iansandusky417]

Very very cool machines, and definitely unique!

[@matthiaszobl]

Great Video and very interesting insights

[@tim_mueller]

7:30 so 6" in radius (320mm ≈ 12")

[@BlissLovePeace]

Lol😂

[@scruffy3121]

btw its more like 12" diameter cutter at ~ 7:00min

[@fabianeer41]

as a german this makes me a lil proud.

[@JohanFasth-w4r]

How to even find the way in there? How many employees have they lost and later found in a culvert somewhere? ;)

[@rustknuckleirongut8107]

They are Germans, they only lose stuff that is supposed to get lost

[@Stadtpark90]

It’s such an old idea: robots producing robots. The self-assembling machine. - But it’s not additive (like LEGO), or biological (like cells that literally grow more cells), but large (reductive) metalworking CNC-machines. You can always add more layers. - Now you need a robot for building the building, laying / connecting the electricity and water and waste-stream etc. - This thing is not even close to a cell yet, not even the mitochondria, it’s more like a piece of RNA. I mean: zoomed out it becomes the GAIA-hypothesis: the whole planet could be seen as a super-organism, made out of biotopes, made out of species, made out of individuals, made out of organs, made out of tissues, made out of cells, made out of molecules, made out of atoms, made out of elementary particles (- made out of strings or atoms of space or whatever the deepest theory will be). And then you can go the other way until you reach galaxy-super-clusters, „The Great Wall“.

[@FUBAR762]

Glad to see still some coll thing come from my country

[@chr0mg0d]

So they build machines to build machines to build even more machines? Hail the Omnissiah, all praise to the Machine God 😁

[@elimeir8558]

Any one spot the Hazet Assistent tool trolley at 11:25? Damn I am such a tool junkie...

[@arvedludwig3584]

Whoever pushes it around tells everybody else that they are low wage workers that should move aside.

[@KarlKarpfen]

Hazet is fairly standard in Germany, as they are good, but not too expensive.

[@KarlKarpfen]

@@arvedludwig3584 In Germany, the company buys the tools, so the worker doesn't pay a single penny for the tools they use.

[@DarkSession6208]

Hazet is even cheaper and normal in Germany than Snap-On is in the US.

[@maxi-g]

thank‘s for explaining what the company or machines do…

[@UlrichWulf]

So sieht das beim mittelständischen Weltmarktführer Grob aus, und was ist mit Fein ;-)?

[@joajojohalt]

can we somehow get this guys a "walk" through the basf factorys.

[@thedude579]

Very cool.

[@ajacobs100]

How do you double like this?

[@zeikerd]

I watched the whole thing and I have nothing with machinerie. I love german efficiency though.

[@kushyglowy8409]

Fascinating

[@4digits678]

Arbeite bei einem Konkurrenten, aber wirklich coole Firma 👍🏼

[@shinokto3972]

I am german and did not know this

[@macbaar6073]

👍 a word about the education to run this machines?

[@timstevens3361]

i worked at durose in guelph its a whole city block

[@FrickinCCDeVileV]

8:54 Lmao American pilots when they saw the first ME109 fly past 😅😅😅

[@Andreas-gh6is]

This has Factorio vibes...

[@0Turbox]

If you have a machine that is 30 years old and still running, you know you make money with it.

[@tideypods4808]

12:33 POV: you asked a German a technical question

[@MCasterAnd]

14:00 40 000 SQM????????? HOLY SHIT

[@M4xXxIkInG]

the whole plant has ~200 000SQM

[@nine99-abcForUTube]

Awesome, impressive and stunning. Thanks for showing us bleeding edge technology, skills and insights.

[@derErzbischof]

3:07 i swear that was a wii sports sound effect {edit: more like Mario Kart Countdown)

[@xslashx1908]

Mario Kart Countdown sound

[@derErzbischof]

@ ahh yes you are right 😂🏎️

[@peacefulasian8279]

Show this to "Hadrin" guys who do fancy videos to get money .This is real manufacturing

[@RainbowBier]

just check it out on maps its insane how big it is, there is a literal helipad in all of this

[@Rush47.]

a helipad is nothing special

[@chaddanylak8706]

I dont want to know there eletric bill

[@adddude7524]

Haha, imagine wanting to start a competing business to these guys. No chance.

[@noneck3099]

" WOW look at the chips coming off of that!! " We'd like to....but your cameraman is fixated on you guys...

[@Dryenwc3]

have never even heard of the company

[@Rush47.]

why should you have heard of it ?

[@woko-ly7mm]

funny is the name GROB (raw),for a high precision mashines

[@lucastahl]

Great factory tour although this was mostly the host standing there mouthbreathing. Show more of the factory pls ❤

[@fruchtsafarigonzo364]

Schönen Nikolaus 🎉 lg Pommesarm

[@DancingMachine1]

12:03 such a suspicious cut :D

[@gluteusmaximus1657]

All of this is possible plus universal healthcare, 5 - 6 weeks of paid vacation and a very long period of paid sick time!

[@TheBenenene10]

Really interesting! But the camera operator needs to step up their game

[@peterliebe829]

Their granddads used to go to the woods with a tin can and come back with a locomotive you know.

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

A model plane has to fly itself. There's no pilot to correct the trim. Therefore if anything, a model plane has to be designed for greater stability than what you are pleased to call the real thing.

[@Stadtpark90]

12:58

[@ttinnovations3310]

so cool