We all love our iPhones and can’t
live without them,
but have you ever wondered what it’s like
inside the factories that makes them
fun, the fact that the iPhone isn’t
actually made in China, it’s actually made in many
different countries, that
‘s why we use Apple’s iphone
identified as
Chinese import is that finishing is done in the
country after a lot of traveling around the
world through
Apple’s global supply chain
When trying to understand
where Apple produces its
gadgets two main ideas of
assembly and manufacturing are run to
further explain the component making process
What goes
into the iPhone is the manufacturing part
While Apple designs and markets the
iPhone
it doesn’t and produces the
components instead,
Apple uses manufacturers around the world
to make individual components
, each manufacturer specializing in
certain components
made by camera
specialists Lens and screen assembly specialists
assembling the screen
etc. On the other hand bling is the
process of taking all
the individual parts
made by specialized manufacturers and
incorporating them into the
final product, a ready-to-work iPhone in
today’s video, s We take a look
at Apple’s iPhone factory in China to see
how these phones are put together
and what’s going on behind the scenes
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from all over the place Why China
First of all how did Apple decide to
manufacture the iPhone components in a
place other than
America Well, it’s really simple, it is
not possible to manufacture the
parts in America
due to the huge demand that Apple faces in
the manufacturing facility in China where
Apple products
specifically go through
Final aggregation of nearly
300,000 employees in the United States, and
only 83 cities have the same population
as the number of employees of this factory,
meaning that the number
of potential workers in the United States is
not enough to cover Apple’s needs
in China
, an estimated quarter of the forces live
Working in company owned dormitories
, these neighborhoods are located in Apple owned land
due to the large number
of people who live and work in the
company, you
might not have guessed it but these
jobs are really in demand OEM7 Suppliers in China and
they can hire the biggest As many people as possible
on hand,
these examples show that the
scale and efficiency of
Chinese manufacturing are
outperforming anything we can currently
do
plus the workforce in China
provides the majority of the raw materials
used to make apple products are
similarly manufactured abroad and
much of it is located A short walk
from the final assembly plant
to make things more efficient,
moving these components to any
US-based plants means
greater costs and possibly even
manufacturing delays
when it comes to traditional outsourcing and
manufacturing
costs more money to manufacture in
America than employees
need Until they get paid much more than they do
in overseas countries like China
apart from that there are also expenses
on employee insurance benefits
and higher taxes because
companies want to generate
additional expenses of income that are not
necessarily transferred to the consumer in increasing the
prices of products In simpler words
this means that US
manufactured Apple products will cost
much more than the current big move price
I can hardly afford as
Apple is choosing to outsource
manufacturing to China
is really about who can assemble the
most apple products in the
shortest amount of time possible,
bearing in mind that this also means
that China can remain instantly adaptable and
versatile to apple needs
in a report
an Apple executive also expressed that
We no longer have employees with the
skills they are looking for
One specific example would be the
release of the latest iPhone
There is a huge demand f or
Apple realizes they need to be
finished ASAP
Apple knew it wasn’t possible
with us to manufacture
and that would lead to Delays and delays
with this
they turned to benefit from the
Chinese factory service and were able to.
Quickly accomplish
tasks due to this is because in China
manufacturers can require a large number
of engineers to handle the
necessary manufacturing overnight
They have an ample supply of workers
This permits them
to complete a large capacity of tasks quickly
and in short and
ours basically cannot employ 300,000 employees
overnight
, Which makes China a convenient
and adaptable supplier for them
So who supplies apple parts
Foxconn also known as Han
High Precision
Manufacturer is the world’s largest contract manufacturer
of electronics and
gadgets with production lines across
mainland China
famous for making
iPhones and other apple gadgets
but that’s not all it has a long list of
custome rs including
sony blackberry and dell but how the
company was born
it was founded by a guy named terry
gao when
he was only 24 he started by
borrowing
7500 from his mother to found han Hai
was founded in 1974 to make plastic handles
for black and white televisions saw rapid growth
due to the growing popularity of
personal computers and video games,
the company continued into the 1980s making
electrical connectors To the
likes of IBM and Atari foxconn, it
grew its first factory in Shenzhen, China
to employ a large number of workers
aged one hundred thousand on its many
assembly lines
, and thus helped the company transform
southern China into
a global electronics manufacturing powerhouse.
Today, the company employs more than
Million workers
mostly in mainland China In 2016,
Foxconn bought a majority stake in
Japan’s Sharp for $3.5 billion
, the first foreign acquisition of
a major Japanese electronics company
, as it
sought a stake in
the booming Toshiba memory chip but
is expected to win Competing
Presenters of Foxconn Founder Terry Gao explained
that he plans for Foxconn
to shape its brand
and secure its own winning pioneering innovations
Now, let’s take a look inside apple’s iPhone factory
in China The iPhone factory in China has evolved
into what residents have dubbed
iPhone City
As its population
exceeds that of many American cities combined
due to the number of
immigrant and businessmen who
settle there and
set up their stalls for services
such as nutritional massages and other things
In Shenzhou provinces and towns
is a complete industry chain of foxconn,
headquarter and other subsidiary factories
to ensure high efficiency
, the factory is located within
a reinforced and
customs-provided area at the
entrance to the production line
to facilitate iphone exports, it
is also located a few miles from
the city airport
to facilitate well-thought global shipments
with apples but what goes inside
well there are more than 94 iphones production
lines with 350,000 employees
around 350 iphones units are assembled every minute
with 500,000 units can be assembled
per day which makes it unsurprising that half
of the iphones in the world
come from shenzhou china One employee in
charge of
polishing
the iphone lcd screen with
special material states that it handles 1700 units per day
that is about three screens every
minute for 12 hours per day
, other jobs like connecting wood panels can take
up to a minute of the phone
, And it’s not uncommon to hear about
one employee who finished about
600 to 700 iPhones a day,
my back started hurting as soon as I read that
Foxconn employees portrayed
factory work as
very boring and stressful, but the
worst
job in the factory Is the gathering area
where they have to repeat the same thing
8 to 12 hours a
day some employees even grow to hate
talking about employees, mostly
18-25 year olds
while rabbits can be 16 years old
for gender, they are roughly equal In
numbers,
most of these workers come from
Shenzhou or villages near Hanan
which is one of the poorest provinces of
China with a population of 94
million
despite the already huge population
every day new employees come to work
in the facility
every few minutes, a new worker arrives
with a huge bag and a
shopping bag full of essentials,
some already with secured jobs
while others show up
hoping to get an interview with the
help of a nearby agency While nearly everyone else
‘s area business for
Foxconn employees working in production can be
distinguished by red and blue jackets
adorned with staff numbers nearby,
one of the sprawling dormitories Parties
where there are at least ten
apartment complexes of 10 floors each room can
accommodate eight people
and is furnished with bunk beds
, the rent costs about twenty-five dollars per
month per person
with Internet at a cost Three extra dollars a
month but because everyone
works different shifts it’s
rarely packed into workers quarters
for the salaries of Foxconn workers who
revealed that the factory wage rates
started around
1,900 yuan or nearly $300 a
month
and the compensation is so low
that the Chinese government
doesn’t charge fees. Payroll taxes From
worker paychecks
After a 45-day trial period,
base rates can increase to about
$390 to $500 per month. Workers
eager to take on night shifts can
expect their pay to increase to up to
785 overtime included.
By
students and nonprofit scholars
against corporate misconduct that
$650 should be the living wage
for factory workers
which means workers will have to put up with a
lot of extra work to earn
a decent living
but Foxconn’s monthly wage is still
better than most. -skilled jobs in
china even if compensation in
shangzhao production line is less than
in shenzhen many employees prefer to
work
there because the cost of living is more
af traversable and it’s closer to
their cities
but there is also a dark side
to von china factory and
it’s amazing how factories China never
fails to meet deadlines but
efficiency and productivity have a
darker side that our failure to acknowledge
claims of poor working conditions
have been at many events
Also, news reports indicate that
Chinese employees are severely discriminated
against
working appallingly long shifts, and
few Labor relations at the
factory
The Beijing News reported in February
2015 that
Zhao Jun, an employee of the
Confederation of Trade Unions of China,
said that Foxconn allegedly forced
employees to stay on the job
longer than required, resulting in
accidental deaths at the hands of Karoshi
or similar conditions.
The additional Zhao Jun added
that the illegal overtime came
from light penalties and
lack of quality. Foxconn in return
issued a statement examining
Zhao’s allegations
arguing that their employees wanted to
work overtime to earn money. hand c ash and
that’s not all financial times
it was announced in november 2017
that uncountable students had been discovered
working 11 hours a day at
the iphone x factory in hanan county
ignoring a limit of 40 hours work
week for youth
in response to Foxconn reported it
had suspended interns from
work The extra illegal at the
processing plant where
3,000 students were employed in September
in 2019 there was a
report that a portion of
Foxconn’s managers
had used rejected parts to build
iPhones,
but it was suicides among Foxconn employees
that triggered this.
It really caught the attention of the media
that among the first cases that
came out in the press was the death
of a
25-year-old man who committed suicide in July
2009 and the reason behind this was that he lost
an
iPhone 4 prototype while
in possession accordingly. To the telegraph room
, Sundan Yang’s apartment is raided,
he’s also beaten up and imprisoned by
security guards as his friend tells him A
series of suici des still progresses
which were mainly associated with low wages
in 2010.
Foxconn installed a
suicide prevention net at the base of its buildings and
pledged to provide Much higher wages
at production bases in Shenzhen
In response to a spate of suicides
in which 14 employees died that
year in 2011, Foxconn also hired public relations firm
burson marsteller to help deal
with negative publicity
stemming from the suicides that year,
and networks appeared to be They help lower
the death rate, but they can still stop
four employees who tragically ended up
taking themselves.
What followed was a protest by workers
in January 2012
over working conditions in
Wuhan with 150 workers threatening
mass suicide if conditions
didn’t improve and
that
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