When Apple launched iPhone 5s in September, it wasn’t very easy to get one, especially if you wanted a gold iPhone 5s. However, just in time for the holiday season, the shipping estimates for iPhone 5s has dropped to just 3 to 5 business days, and a recent survey suggests that it is reaching 90% availability in Apple’s U.S. retail stores. Apple has managed to achieve it thanks to its manufacturing partner Foxconn, which has ramped up iPhone 5s production. Wall Street Journal provides some insight: The Taiwan-based contract manufacturer, which has more than one million workers in China, has operated 100 production lines around the clock in Zhengzhou, north central China, at full capacity, according to executives at Hon Hai. The company has about 300,000 workers at its Zhengzhou site , dedicated to just making the iPhone 5S and key components such as metal casings. To get a glimpse of just how complicated it is to manufacture the iPhone 5S, Hon Hai executives said the company has about 600 workers on each iPhone 5S production line to handle assembly work. “We have been churning out about 500,000 iPhone 5Ss everyday, the highest daily output ever,” said the executive who declined to be named. The Foxconn executive has also revealed that it takes a longer time to assemble an iPhone 5s compared to the iPhone 5c. Foxconn has only 500 workers on each iPhone 5c production line, as it is a lot less complicated. There have also been reports that Apple has significantly scaled back the production of iPhone 5c units, which has probably also helped Foxconn in diverting resources to assemble iPhone 5s. It is just incredible to find out the scale at which Apple and its partners operate to manufacture an iPhone. [Via Wall Street Journal] Continue reading
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