Making an iPad. A look inside a Foxconn factory in China. Workers start by earning $14 a day and they are still being replaced by machines.
Making an iPad. A look inside a Foxconn factory in China. Workers start by earning $14 a day and they are still being replaced by machines.
This is one of the factories, where people (especially young high school graduates or teenagers from rural areas) are eager to earn money to keep them alive and, feeling depressed for such repetitive and tedious workload. In fact, there are thousands of such Chinese or foreign manufactures out there in China because of cheap labours and imperfect legislations (environmental etc.). Industrial automation is a trend which can effectively increase the process efficiency and reduce the CAPEX/OPEX hence favourable for the business development, while on the other hand, building a factory locally in China appears to be a solution for employment issues, which the company itself can obtain policy support from local governments, e.g. appropriate tax reduction, hence for a long run, fully industrial automation is unlikely to be happening in China in my opinion.