Life on the Line
In a factory in Alaska the mother of all deadlines is approaching. A haul of 90,000lbs of halibut is about to arrive, and it has to be processed in record time. They have till 2am to drive 300miles to the airport and make the last flight to mainland USA.
In a Scottish factory workers are battling to build six monster dump trucks. The order has required the factory to double its output, and machines are breaking down. Jobs and reputations are on the line, with the first truck due in just 15 days.
Sixteen oil rig anchors are needed urgently by a rig in the Gulf of Mexico before Hurricane season begins. Without the anchors the $500million platform is a sitting duck. It's down to the workers at Sheffield Forgemasters, one of Britain's largest steelworks, to make and deliver these 80 tonne anchors in record time. Every part of this job is hazardous. But the steelmakers have an added pressure. If it takes them too long to cast the steel it will harden inside the ladle. Can Sheffield Forgemasters steelworks make and deliver the anchors before hurricane season? It's judgement day on the Factory Line!
War isn't just about tanks and soldiers it's also about diggers! The US Military needs 900 High Mobility Engineer Excavators, or HMEEs, to rebuild Afghanistan. Priced at $250,000, these machines cocoon their operators in a shield of bomb- and bullet-proof plate steel. JCB's factory in Savannah, Georgia must get 20 to the troops every month or the safety of military engineers will be at risk. But JCB's 25 skilled mechanics face a tough fight to get them out the door on time. Crucial parts go AWOL. Competitor lines steal resources. Vital components break down. Can Operation HMEE meet the deadline?
Food production is pushing forestry into the hills. Lumberjacks need machines that carry heavier loads and climb steeper slopes. In Finland, forest-machine specialists Ponsse are working on the answer - the world's biggest lumber trailer, known as a 'Forwarder'. Their largest is called the 'Elephant'. This prototype is so big they've named it the 'Elephant King'. But has this Finnish factory bitten off more than it can chew? They have just three days to build it, parts are the wrong size, others don't turn up, and workers are being pushed to their limits. Can this Finnish factory make a Forwarder that could change the industry forever?
The Gulf of Mexico is open for business once again. $500 million dollar oil rigs need deep sea explorers to help in drilling oil, and they need them now. Enter Oceaneering in Morgan City, Louisiana. This factory produces Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Each $6 million mini-sub can manoeuvre 10,000ft below the seas surface. Now the demand is back on in the Gulf, Oceaneering must push through two ROV's in record time or their client could lose millions in oil revenue a day. But the pressure on the sea floor is nothing compared to that on the factory line. Can Oceaneering turn around two subs in just 3 days?
It's the 75th birthday of Nevz - Russia's biggest train locomotive Factory - and the country's iron-fisted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is paying a visit.
He's checking up on a massive order for Locomotives his government has placed to modernize Russia's ailing rail network. But fights are breaking out on the production line. Cracks have been discovered in the monster locomotives. And missing parts mean production has stopped workers are not getting paid. Will Nevz produce a train fit for a Prime Minister? Or will the workers be sent to Siberia? This is life on the line in the wild, wild East.
In Alabama the unthinkable has happened. A nuclear power stations is without power. A series of tornadoes have torn through the state's power lines leaving Brownsferry Nuclear Power Plant offline. Now Mexican steel fabricators SAE towers and Tennessee Valley Authority's linemen are in a desperate race to make and erect 30 giant transmission towers before Alabama's disaster turns into a catastrophe. But raw materials are delayed, tempers are fraying and 150ft up parts aren't fitting. Lives are on the line as Mexican factory workers and US linemen battle to get the nuclear power plant back online.
A powerful man in Africa wants his Range Rover armor plated to save him from attempts on his life. And he's a man who gets what he wants. Texas Armoring Corporation (TAC) in San Antonio have taken on the task by adding James Bond-style smoke screen devices and electric shock gadgets, all to an impossible deadline. But stretching the car has meant bullet proof windshields don't fit, and teams of workers crawling over the vehicle creates potentially fatal accidents in the workshop. If TAC don't meet the deadline they'll lose a multi-million dollar contract and heads will roll. It's do or die for this San Antonio factory.
It's bushfire season in New Mexico and Santa Fe Fire Department is stretched to its limit. It desperately needs a new, custom-built firetruck to combat the bushfires threatening the city. Pierce Manufacturing in Appleton, Wisconsin must get a brand new truck to Santa Fe in record time or lives in New Mexico could be in danger. But Pierce's crew faces a tough fight to get the truck out the door on time. Faulty parts burnout. Complex electronics malfunction. Client changes cause chaos. Can Pierce turn around their tightest order ever... or will their New Mexico deadline go up in smoke?
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