• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Xiaomi said assembling a smartphone from circuit board to finished product takes about six seconds, and, at full capacity, the factory could produce more than 10 million devices annually

    There are ~30 million seconds in a year. So this factory is only producing 2 phones at a time? Assuming the article is accurate, I’m very curious to hear why this was chosen as a design

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      6 hours ago

      Especially since it says 11 production lines…

      11 lines = 57.8 million

      57.8/~10 means their lines are down 38.5% of the time?!?!?

      Edit: Maybe the nearly 40% downtime is retooling for different models?