Slipup at HP?s Chinese Manufacturing Facility Gives a Rare Glimpse Into Life on the Assembly Line

When it comes to manufacturing in North America we make food, cars, and import just about everything else. Our hunger for high tech has gone into hyper active mode over the last decade, and the thousands of new products pouring into our local Best Buy are usually made in China, Taiwan, or just about anywhere inexpensive labour can be found. The repetitive tasks and long hours have led to a PR nightmare for companies such as Apple, who in earnest, have offered up several guided tours to help highlight the positive aspects of life at these city sized plants responsible for making our gadgets. These tours have been guided, carefully staged events however, and many have wondered what a candid un-staged video might look like. If that?s you, wonder no longer. A manufacturing slipup by Quanta has given us a rare glimpse at one of the HP manufacturing lines, and it?s pretty darn dull.

We chose to highlight this video not because its particularly action packed, but because of how rare a candid look into these facilities actually are. HP doesn?t have much to do on this one in terms of damage control, as life at this Chongqing manufacturing facility seems pretty mundane. The workers depicted here seem to be part of the quality process, and are testing the various hardware components as the machines move down the line. At one point the worker glances up to make eye contact with the web camera he is presumably testing, but that?s about it.

If these workers are lucky, they are making about $2 an hour. Does the video change your opinion on ?Made in China??

Check out the video here.

Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/slipup_hp%E2%80%99s_chinese_manufacturing_facility_gives_rare_glimpse_life_assembly_line

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