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Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots; production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%

“After a factory in Dongguan, China, replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity,” Mihai Andrei reports for ZME Science. “It’s been long discussed that robots and computers will start taking our jobs “in the near future” — well that near future is upon us and we’re not really prepared to deal with it. Of course, some jobs are more at risk than others,…

iPhone assembler Foxconn’s billionaire CEO Terry Gou chafes at China’s ‘unreasonable’ overtime caps

“The billionaire chief of Foxconn Technology Group, Apple Inc.’s main iPhone assembler, argues that China’s ‘unreasonable’ restrictions on overtime hours hurts his workers and the company’s competitiveness,” Debby Wu reports for Bloomberg. “Taking aim at criticism Foxconn over-works its employees to meet soaring demand before the annual holiday shopping season, Terry Gou told shareholders his…

President Trump’s vision of massive U.S. Apple iPhone assembly hinges on robotics

“President Trump has visions of a massive Apple factory opening in the U.S. to churn out the latest iPhone,” Jed Graham reports for Investor’s Business Daily. “The idea is not completely far-fetched, but one thing seems clear: If it happens, most of the new jobs will go to robots.”

“Even in lower-cost China, Foxconn, which assembles the iPhone there, reportedly replaced 60,000 workers…

Pegatron CEO: If President Trump institutes ‘Made in America’, we can build iPhones in U.S. – as long as Apple absorbs the costs

“Pegatron Corp., one of the two Taiwanese companies that assemble iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc., said Tuesday that it would be willing to move that part of its operations to the United States once its client would absorb the additional costs,” Pan Chih-yi and Elizabeth Hsu report for Focus Taiwan.

“Pegatron CEO Liao Syh-jang was responding to questions raised at an investor…

Can President Trump bring Apple iPhone factories back to America?

“As President Donald Trump pushes U.S. companies to make more products in the U.S., firms like ETWater and Tesla, which rely heavily on automation, illustrate that it can be done in some industries,” Marisa Kendall writes for The Mercury News. “Since winning the election, Trump has doubled down on his campaign promise to tax companies that make products overseas and ship them to the U.S., meeting…

Foxconn Aims To Replace Human Workers With Robots In The Coming Years

Foxconn is one of the largest manufacturers in the world. The company makes iPhones, laptops, tablets, many smartphone models and has contracts signed with many tech giants. The company resided in Taiwan but the majority of its factories are based in mainland China. The company employs more than 1.2 million people and has numerous assembly facilities where different gadgets are made by humans.…

Foxconn has 10 lights-out production lines, aims to fully automate entire factories

“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,” Chia-Han Lee and Adam Hwang report for DigiTimes.

• Phase 1: Individual automated work stations for work that workers are unwilling to do or is…

Apple iPhone production in the U.S.is actually straightforward and not expensive

“Nikkei recently reported that Apple has approached two iPhone manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron to investigate moving iPhone production to the U.S.,” Robert Castellano writes for Seeking Alpha. “This would be an alternative to get around a possible 45% tariff for Chinese goods imported into the U.S. in an effort by President-Elect Donald Trump to bring back manufacturing jobs.”

“Ther…