Manufacturing Philosophy ----------------------------- - Fanuc human-less factories - robot cells with 8 HMC's, pallet system, stocker, robots runs 720 hours (30 days) totally unattended. Fanuc has 40 of these. - Foxconn Shenzhen factory http://www.jordanpouille.com/2010/12/22/foxconn-young-workers-christmas/ http://www.lavie.fr/actualite/monde/dans-l-enfer-du-high-tech-chinois-23-12-2010-12724_5.php (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cL60TYY8oQ gone...) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/11/foxconn-working-with-google-on-robotics/ http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1473311/it-will-be-some-time-robots-will-replace-foxconns-workers - Steve Jobs decided on a glass screen 6wks before iPhone launch - Apple already had glass selected from Corning,but not mfg/assm process - Chinese mfg built factory on spec that Apple would need glass screens - Foxconn got 8000 workers up in middle of night to start assemblying iphones with new glass screens. It took them only 15 days to hire 8000 industrial engineers to supervise iphone assembly. - Why robots don't kill jobs http://rosindustrial.org/news/2014/5/9/why-robots-dont-kill-jobs - human wants are essentially infinite. If people made 5x their current salary, they would still spend it all. So productivity can increase indefinitely and not be "too much". - China running out of factory workers, installing robots http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/technology/robotica-cheaper-robots-fewer-workers.html - Reshoring http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21569570-growing-number-american-companies-are-moving-their-manufacturing-back-united - 37% of American mfg co's with >$1B moving production back from China - 48% of American mfg co's with >$10B - so how do we avoid being the people who design products for the 10% rich, to be manufactured by the exploited 30% poor? - Worldbike project - Playpump project