Apple factory in the United States can be fully robotized
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
The following year, Apple plans to invest $ 100 million for the deployment of Mac production plant in the United States. Small for such a corporation costs are unlikely to be attracted attention, if not for one interesting fact.
The new plant will almost completely robotic. In other words, the whole cycle of manufacture of an aluminum workpiece to the finished product packaged in the box will be carried out with little or no human intervention. Apple has the money has the talents and resources have to finally give up the Chinese living labor in favor of the American miracle robot while maintaining the current cost of production.
Many of you are already familiar with the video, which shows the creation MacBook technology using a so-called «unibody design». If you somehow missed this informative information, below is a video of 2009, in which Jonathan Ive talks about the use of robotics in the production process.
"Machines can achieve unthinkable level of accuracy in the production."
If you venture to the robotic plant in the United States is successful, other companies will have a good think about their production processes and their geographical distribution.
Larry Sweet, chief engineer Symbotic, engaged in the development and production of autonomous mobile robots for large warehouses, describes the concept of a possible future Apple factory:
"First, the robot sets an aluminum billet in a machine that drills using other mechanisms necessary turns the metal bar into a finished part of the housing. The item is sent down the pipeline, which is very accurate robots set in detail all the necessary details (fees, etc.). In the future, almost finished housing, "weighing in" screen and the remaining part of the structure. At the end of the finished product is packed in a box and is already ready to be shipped to stores. "
Apple is not the first company that counts on robotics as the workforce of the future. In March this year, Amazon signed a contract for $ 775 million with the company Kiva Systems, which is engaged in the production of autonomous mobile robots.
Does Apple so only for efficiency reasons, or whether it is the first step in the strategy of easing dependence on China for us ordinary users, it is only important to preserve the quality of production along with a lack of increase in prices due to changes in technology production.