Exactly what Candle Man said! This is a manual machine. You have all the control. It is basically just a bunch of votive molds together. You use the wheel to crank them out once they are cooled. They are still hand poured. Lindsay, they are really votive machines. The translation is a bit, um, bad! They call them mini-pillars but they are votives. There is a water cooling system that runs in the top of the machine making it cool faster and able to produce the product quickly. I think it takes about 45 mins in my little votive molds so that would be about right.