Homework: Refer to business of your choice, explain the division of labour within that business with visuals if possible. Explain the relevant advantages and disadvantages of specialization in the business to choose.
Introduction to Foxconn
All the Apple products, including Apple iPods, iPhones, and MacBook series are manufactured globally, but the biggest factory with which Apple contract to make products is Foxconn Technology Group in Shen Zhen, China. Foxconn Technology Group, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd is the world's biggest manufacturing conglomerate by market revenue. It has its walled factory city of 270,000 Foxconn employees in Shen Zhen, and in that factory city, there is virtually everything: a hospital, fire station, swimming pool, athletic field, a separate area for the basketball courts, and even a bookstore. The main clients of the Foxconn Company are Apple, Samsung, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Nokia, Sony, and Nintendo.
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Foxconn in Taiwan. 鴻海尾牙表演Division of Labour
iPhone Primary Contractors - partial list
Parts of iPhone | Business Name | Country of origin |
Software and design | Apple | USA |
Assembly | Foxconn | Taiwan |
TFT-LCD Screen | Sanyo Epson, Sharp, TMD | Japan |
Video processor chip | Samsung | Korea |
Touch screen overlay | Balda | Germany |
Bluetooth chip | Cambridge Silicon Radio | UK |
Chip manufacture | TSMC, UMC | Taiwan |
Baseband IC | Infineon Technology | Germany |
WIFI Chip | Marvell | USA |
Touch screen control chip | Broadcom | USA |
CMOS chip | Micron | USA |
NOR Flash ICs | Intel, SST | USA |
Display Driver chip | National Semi, Novatek | US, TW |
Case, Mechanical parts | Catcher, Foxconn Tech | Taiwan |
Battery Charger | Delta Electronics | Taiwan |
Timing Crystal | TXC | Taiwan |
Passive components | Cyntec | Taiwan |
Connector and cables | Cheng Uei, Entery | Taiwan |
Camera Lens | Largan Precision | Taiwan |
Camera Module | Altus-Tech, Primax, Lite on | Taiwan |
As you may see from above, parts of Apple iPhone is made from companies all over the world, and so it is extremely hard to...