Apple Factory 1.0

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Instead of branching out in to digital content production or self-driving cars, I would like to see Apple work on redesigning the factory, similar to how Elon Musk is thinking.

Tim Cook knows a lot about manufacturing and supply chain. Jony Ive would have a field day designing it. They could eat their own dog food by making Apple products in it. It could include environmental improvements over existing factories. And the timing is right because US taxes and tariffs are changing to encourage domestic manufacture, so why not take the opportunity to redesign the factory? It just seems like something they could be good at and get enthusatic about.

What do you think, could Apple make a good factory?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,185member
    Perhaps (though I don't see it happening).
    At the moment, Apple is NOT a manufacturer, so why would they suddenly want to start building such facilities?

    Apple does R&D and designs products... all the manufacturing of those products is handled by others.
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    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Apple used to manufacture in the US. Wasn’t it Cook who ended that? I doubt he’d bring things back. He’s not a fan of nationalism.
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    sphericspheric Posts: 2,751member
    Apple used to manufacture in the US. Wasn’t it Cook who ended that? I doubt he’d bring things back. He’s not a fan of nationalism.
    No, it was Cook who re-introduced manufacturing in the US, for the Mac Pro. IIRC, they stopped full manufacturing in the US sometime in the 90s. 

    They’d only had some CTO-assembly in the US in between. 
    edited March 2018
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    asciiascii Posts: 5,936member
    Perhaps (though I don't see it happening).
    At the moment, Apple is NOT a manufacturer, so why would they suddenly want to start building such facilities?

    Apple does R&D and designs products... all the manufacturing of those products is handled by others.

    Didn't Steve Jobs design the factory for the original Mac though? So it's in their DNA (as Cook would say). The difference this time is they would sell factories as a product. So the tab bar on apple.com would look like this:

    _____________________________________________
     Mac  iPad  iPhone  Watch  Factory        Support
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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    dungeonbeastdungeonbeast Posts: 6member
    It could be nice if the Apple factory is operated by million of robots and the automation process is running without utilizing any human resources. (been watching too much movies lately, we do need human intervention and resources)
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