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