It’s two steps forward and one step back with manufacturing, production, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Full-on COVID-19 precautions have been reinstated back at Apple supplier Foxconn, at the request of the city government in Shenzhen, China. The company has been asked to return to closed-loop production, wherein workers live in dormitory accommodation on the campus, […]
The good news is that Foxconn’s Shenzhen, China manufacturing plant is resuming production following a partial lifting of the city-wide lockdown that was initiated on Monday. The Taiwanese company told Reuters it had restarted some production and operations at its Shenzhen campus after meeting government conditions for staff to live and work in bubble arrangements […]
Apple is trying to get things up and running again in China following the coronavirus outbreak and the forced closure of iPhone assembler Foxconn’s main assembly plant. Apple, in turn, has announced that it will be “cautiously” resuming production in its main iPhone manufacturing plants. Foxconn announced that it is cautiously reopening its plants, but […]
Apple, like other companies, is feeling the effect of the coronavirus outbreak. To this point, key iPhone assembler Foxconn has told its workers to stay away from its Shenzhen factory. The moratorium referents a noted effort by Apple’s chief supplier to curb the efforts of the outbreak, which has paralyzed much of China’s manufacturing. Shenzhen […]
It looks like Apple could be using assembly partner FoxConn for an increased production of its MacBook Pro notebooks. A current rumor from the upstream supply chain states that while Apple may not be planning a major update to its MacBook Pro notebook line this year, Apple will be shifting a major portion of its […]