COVID-19 During this period, almost worldwide production took a major hit. The reasons for this situation included the closure of factories and other production facilities under health measures or the significant reduction of their capacity, and the disruption of supply chains.

Apple will also take action if a similar situation occurs again. To prevent disruption of production processes They decided to replace the ‘problem causing’ part of the current systems: the people. The technology giant has approved many expensive automation projects for this purpose so far. According to the news, although most of the iPhone 15 production has been automated, the automation is not yet at the desired level.

High error rates affected automation

Some automation systems from Apple iPhone 16 It is said that he gave up for this reason. The reason for this situation turned out to be that automations have a seriously high error rate. According to three people who work in Apple’s supply chain, the iPhone buttons, receiver, speaker and main circuit board To put it on the device, the company tried to use automation. On the other hand, these machines had difficulty properly securing components. The reason for this is that these components have to be screwed in at odd angles and carefully.

On the other hand, with this approach from Apple, iPhone production from China It can go further away. Apple may also start production in other Southeast Asian countries such as India, Vietnam and Thailand.