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Consider that each new iPhone and iPhone size required retooling entire portions of the manufacturing line. And by retooling I mean physical tools - the shoots
by cududa 4y ago
Consider that each new iPhone and iPhone size required retooling entire portions of the manufacturing line. And by retooling I mean physical tools - the shoots that deliver the right sized screw to the individuals assembling that part, soldering techniques changing and requiring different equipment, spot weld equipment etc.
Building a “backup factory” would also require that massive investment every year to revamp the assembly line, and never get used.
Then there’s the thousands of components that go into an iPhone, and their deliver schedules perfected down to 30 minute windows - you’d have to recreate that, and just ship, what, nothing? To the backup factory?
- ceejayoz 4y agoYou don't build a backup factory to sit there unutilized. You build four large factories instead of one mega factory and run all four. Similar number of machines, similar investment to update them - each is big enough for efficiencies of scale - but if one gets shut down by the local government or has a massive fire or there's a coup you've still got 3/4 of your production going.