Source: www.mactrast.com --- Friday, December 30, 2016
Sorry, Mr. Trump! There soon might not be any Apple product assembly jobs to bring back to the United States . Apple’s main iPhone assembly partner, Foxconn has announced that it already has 40,000 robots in place on its production lines, and is working toward full automation of all of its factories. An early Foxbot. DigiTimes : Foxconn Electronics is automating production at its factories in China in three phases, aiming to fully automate entire factories eventually, according to general manager Dai Jia-peng for Foxconn’s Automation Technology Development Committee. The first phase will consist of seting up individual automated work stations for work that workers are unwilling to do or is dangerous, Dai said. The second phase will consist of the automation of entire production lines, to decrease the number of robots needed during the phase. Finally, Dai says the third phase will see entire factories being automated, with only a small amount of workers being assigned for the production, logistics, testing and inspection processes. Foxconn’s factories in Chengdu, western China, Shenzhen, southern China, and Zhengzhou, northern China, have been brought to the second or third phase, Dai said. There are 10 lights-out (fully automated) production lines at some factories, including table one in Chengdu, AIO (all-in-one) PC and LCD monitor lines at a factory in Chongqing, western China, and a CNC line in Zhengzhou, Dai indicated. Foxcon ...
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