#foxconn

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Sharp LDK+ Concept, 2024. Japanese appliance marker Sharp have teamed up with tech giant Foxconn to created an electric minivan prototype that is a living room on wheels. Features include liquid crystal shutters on the side windows for privacy, rotating rear seating and a massive 65V display that can create an immersive theatre space, a children's play area or a remote work station. 

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As workers prepare to begin a shift, managers call out: “How are you?” Workers must respond by shouting in unison, “Good! Very good! Very, very good!” This drill is said to foster disciplined workers. A laser-soldering worker reported, “Before shift-time, a whistle sounds three times. At the first whistle we must rise and put our stools in order. At the second whistle we prepare to work and put on special gloves or equipment. At the third whistle we sit and work.”

“No talking, no laughing, no eating, no sleeping” during work hours is the number one factory rule. Any behavior that violates discipline is penalized. “Going to the toilet for more than ten minutes incurs an oral warning, and chatting during work time incurs a written warning,” a line leader explained.

Foxconn maintains a policy of demerit points to drive workers to work harder. Another woman worker explained: “The policy penalizes workers for petty offences. I can lose points for having long nails. There are so many things. Just one penalty means losing my monthly bonus.”

Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China's Workers

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Lunafreya! 🌙🌊 My knowledge of Final Fantasy 15 is admittedly pretty limited, so I had to do some research for this one. I ended up being really inspired by the Leviathan summoning sequence and designed a gown based on that scene, complete with Leviathan detailing. I enjoyed playing up the pleated fabrics on this design, along with the water themed skirting.

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Sfruttamento lavoratori cinesi per gli iPhone

Svenimenti e turni massacranti (anche 20 senza riposo) alla fabbrica degli iPhone. Sotto accusa lo stabilimento della Foxconn a Zhengzhou. Operai della Foxconn che svengono esausti per i turni massacranti a cui sono sottoposti per sfornare i nuovi modelli dell'iPhone.  È la denuncia affiorata attraverso alcuni video pubblicati nelle scorse settimane sui social network cinesi dai lavoratori dello stabilimento di Zhengzhou, nella provincia di Henan, e rilanciati dal sito 'China Labour Bulletin', osservatorio con base a Hong Kong che monitora le questioni legate al lavoro nella Repubblica popolare cinese. Lo scrive l'agenzia Asianews. "Chi può sopportare 20 giorni consecutivi di turni notturni senza alcun riposo?", si legge a commento di un video pubblicato su Douyin che descriveva una lavoratrice portata in ospedale dopo giorni di lavoro notturno. Tre giorni dopo, un altro video (che nel frattempo è stato rimosso) ha riferito che due lavoratori erano svenuti nell'area F dello stabilimento Foxconn. Un altro video caricato il 12 ottobre (anch'esso rimosso) riportava un altro episodio di svenimento di un lavoratore in un'officina. Il 'China Labour Bulletin' non è stato in grado di verificare se questi casi segnalati si sovrapponessero. Gli stabilimenti della Foxconn nella provincia dell'Henan - prosegue Asianews - hanno prolungato notevolmente l'orario di lavoro in seguito all'uscita degli iPhone 16 Pro e Pro Max: avrebbero continuato a funzionare il sabato e la domenica, con il risultato che i lavoratori avrebbero dovuto affrontare 20 giorni di lavoro consecutivi prima di ricevere un solo giorno di riposo. La settimana lavorativa prolungata promette una retribuzione più elevata, considerando che il salario orario medio è relativamente basso, pari a circa 25,6 yuan (3.33€).

La riduzione dei giorni di riposo rende però il lavoro più impegnativo dal punto di vista fisico. Accordi simili per l'allungamento dell'orario di lavoro sono stati segnalati anche nelle fabbriche Foxconn di Shenzhen, anche se non sono stati segnalati episodi di svenimento. Dopo la presentazione di denunce anonime, alcune linee della fabbrica Foxconn di Zhengzhou sono tornate a un sistema di giorni di riposo settimanali, probabilmente in risposta all'orario di lavoro irragionevolmente elevato e agli incidenti di svenimenti. Far lavorare un operaio per 20 giorni consecutivi contraddice la stessa legislazione sul lavoro in Cina. L'articolo 38 afferma chiaramente che i datori di lavoro devono garantire almeno un giorno di riposo alla settimana. Inoltre, anche le ore di straordinario previste dal programma della Foxconn superano notevolmente i limiti di legge. I resoconti di diversi lavoratori indicano che molti hanno lavorato oltre 300 ore nel mese di ottobre, con straordinari che sono quasi quattro volte superiori a quanto consentito dall'articolo 41 della Legge sul lavoro. Un recente rapporto del 'China Labour Bulletin' evidenziava già il problema diffuso degli orari di lavoro eccessivamente lunghi nel settore manifatturiero cinese. Questa situazione ha portato a un tragico caso di morte per eccesso di lavoro nella fabbrica di elettronica Qisda di Suzhou, Jiangsu, nel 2023. Il lavoratore migrante Xiao Xu, di 23 anni, è morto dopo aver lavorato per 13 turni notturni consecutivi. 'China Labour Bullettin' ricorda anche che, in qualità di principale acquirente dei prodotti Foxconn, anche Apple ha la responsabilità sociale di garantire che le condizioni di lavoro nelle sue fabbriche siano conformi alle leggi locali sul lavoro. Read the full article

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^^^ Daniel Dale of CNN was almost breathless from reciting and refuting all the lies which Trump told at his Wisconsin rally a couple of days ago. Being a fact checker in the age of Trump is steady work.

Donald Trump is simply a diarrhea torrent of lies. He told 30,573 lies just during his administration. He's likely has told many more than that since leaving office in disgrace.

Washington Post counts 30,573 false or misleading claims in four years by Trump

One thing Trump didn't talk about at his lie-encrusted Wisconsin rally was his Foxconn fiasco near Racine.

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump

Yet another business failure, this time with taxpayer money, by the frequently bankrupt "stable genius".

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Foxconn iPhone workers beaten

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Foxconn employees protesting in the "iPhone city" of Luoyang, Zhengzhou, China (Nov 23rd 2022)

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A Foxconn data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The company has for years promised to build a state of the art manufacturing facility.

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This week, videos showing police in white protective suits kicking and clubbing protesting factory workers have gone viral, drawing attention to longstanding labour complaints among the Chinese workers who make the world’s iPhones.

At the Foxconn factory in the city of Zhengzhou in China’s central Henan province, recent COVID-19 outbreaks have slowed production and led to unrest among employees over pay and virus containment protocols.

Exporters in China such as Foxconn are trying to fill orders for the holiday rush while coping with a “Zero COVID” strategy that abruptly shuts down cities for a week or longer to contain outbreaks.

Employees were enraged when Foxconn Technology Group allegedly changed the terms of wages offered to fill Apple’s orders for iPhone 14 production.

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The company's success certainly rests on its impressive client base, but Foxconn is just as indispensable to those clients. To understand how essential it is to Apple, for instance, you just need to look at how much of the iPhone is made by Foxconn - around 60%, by some estimates. The factories in China make some of the most essential parts of the device - camera modules, connectors, even the back of the phone casing.

‘iPhone maker Foxconn to switch to cars as US-China ties sour’, BBC

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[skleftist]

Womöglich habt auch ihr - am Rande - Meldungen zu Aufständen bzw. Tumulten in China mitbekommen. Die Medienlandschaft verkauft uns das als Aufstand gegen die Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen bzw. gegen die chinesische Coronapolitik, aus welchen Gründen auch immer.

Es geht nicht um Corona! Es geht um Arbeitsbedingungen bei Foxconn, die seit jeher genau das sind, wogegen die Arbeiter:innen aufbegehrt bzw aufbegehren muss. Ein Indiz dafür, dass es vorweg nicht um Corona-Maßnahmen geht, ist zum Beispiel, dass die Demonstrierenden durchweg Maske tragen und keine Parolen gegen Corona-Maßnahmen auf den Weg bringen.

Was aber ist Foxconn überhaupt? Vorweg: Eigentlich habt ihr alle Foxconn Zuhause!

Foxconn ist ein in mehreren Ländern tätiges taiwan-chinesisches Unternehmen, das unter dem Namen Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團 / 富士康科技集团[5], kurz Foxconn 富士康[6]) auf dem Markt auftritt. Foxconn ist das nach Umsatz 20-größte Unternehmen der Welt. Foxconn ist der größte Hersteller für elektronische Produkte der Welt, der größte Dienstleister für elektronische Services der Welt, einer der größten Arbeitgeber der Welt sowie der größte private Arbeitgeber in China und der größte Exporteur Chinas nach Stückzahlen. Der Großteil der weltweit verkauften Smartphones, Laptops, Computertechnik und Spielekonsolen wird von Foxconn produziert. - vgl. Wikipedia.

Medienberichterstattung einfordern!

Vor allem der ÖRR muss hier endlich seiner Verpflichtung nachkommen und darüber berichten, worum es wirklich geht. Ich erwarte mehr von @tagesschau-de, ZDF und auch von Jan Böhmermann sowie vom Radio z. B. Hessischer Rundfunk aber auch von nicht ÖRR-Print wie dem Wiesbadener Kurier bzw. VRM-Medien.

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Foxconn employee describes violent protests in China Video obtained by CNN shows violence in China at Foxconn, the world's largest iPhone factory. Workers are protesting unfair treatment, dirty living conditions, and chaotic Covid rules, as CNN's Selina Wang reports.

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Far, far away in the Middle Kingdom, there is a place called iPhone City.

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans push policies which are largely anti-youth and then somehow wonder why younger voters avoid them like skunks.

Republican Scott Walker, who was one of the worst governors in Wisconsin history, blames the landslide loss of MAGA extremist Daniel Kelly for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on young people. Walker claims that “radical ideas” are responsible for keeping younger voters from voting for Republicans.

Oh? Walker is like that saying about the pot calling the kettle black. It’s the GOP which is pushing a radical agenda which subverts freedom.

A liberal victory in Wisconsin’s recent high-stakes state Supreme Court election has left former Governor Scott Walker in a foot-stamping, multiplatform fume that targeted the young voters who swung behind the victorious Janet Protasiewicz. “Younger voters may be the behind [sic] the stinging loss for conservatives in WI this week,” he tweeted. “We have to undo years of liberal indoctrination.”

Not content to just tweet, Walker took his complaints to Fox News in an attempt to expand his brief against the “indoctrination” of youth. In his telling, the younger generations have been too exposed to “radical ideas,” such as “climate change and defunding the police … abortion, and all these sorts of other issues.” 

Last time I checked, it was Trumpists who want to defund the FBI and take power away from prosecutors who were investigating criminality. And Walker doesn’t seem to think that climate change is real but does think that the state has a role in regulating vaginas. Somehow Walker thinks the GOP lost because it simply wasn’t getting its warped message across.

Walker’s theory of the Wisconsin election might be more convincing if there wasn’t a far less convoluted explanation at the ready, which is simply that young voters did hear the opposing view and found it both substantially objectionable and antithetical to their interests.

Perhaps the largest matter at stake in that election was abortion. Everywhere you look, Republicans are finding it very difficult to actually run on the post-Roe dystopia they’ve engineered—so much so that they’re now trying to get people to just stop talking about it. But the fact that young voters back both reproductive rights and the Democrats who support them, by wide margins, is very well known. Republicans have had ample opportunities to account for this reality and moderate their position. They’ve failed to do so, and, wouldn’t you know it, young people have noticed.

To be honest, if Republicans publicized their views even more, they’d get even fewer votes from people under 35. hehe

So while Walker may believe that some level of “indoctrination” is behind the way the youth vote disproportionately tilts toward Democrats, perhaps there’s something to the theory that young voters are simply noticing what’s going on in the world around them and responding in kind to this abundance of observable information. For example, it could be that young Wisconsinites remember Walker, their would-be liberator from the chains of indoctrination, as the governor whose economic numbers lagged those of Democrat-run neighbor Minnesota, or the guy whose key achievement was saddling the state with his doomed FoxConn factory boondoggle.

Just a quick break to point out that Walker is the architect of one of the worst fiascos in Wisconsin history. Yep, the GOP is supposed to be good at business deals. 😝

Wisconsin’s Foxconn Debacle Keeps Getting Worse

Back to young voters who Republicans are profoundly out of touch with.

Looking further afield, maybe young voters are similarly observing that Republicans seem to just not like them very much! They are probably reading about how conservatives are banning books and drag shows, demonizing gay and trans people, and thwarting progress on climate mitigation—an issue pretty dear to their hearts since they, along with their own children, will be greatly impacted by the environmental calamities to come. It could be that young voters actually have heard the “opposing view” very clearly and they find it to be out of touch and off-putting. 

The GOP has had plenty of chances to avoid alienating young voters. Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson has been sounding the alarm about this for several years now: In 2017, she warned that not only were young voters breaking toward Democrats “by massive margins,” they also weren’t “moving rightward” as they approached middle age. “Like the Gen Xers ahead of them,” she wrote, “they’re instead more and more likely to decide ‘liberal’ suits them just fine as a label.” This all came home to roost in 2018, when the highest youth turnout in the history of midterm elections swept Democrats into office.

Republicans didn’t take the hint and are becoming even more antagonistic to younger voters.

After taking a licking in 2022, Republicans once again failed to respond with soul-searching about losing the youth vote. Instead, they packed the postelection discourse with complaints about voters they’d already so badly alienated, grousing about how the voting age was too low. In recent weeks, a concerted effort has begun to suppress the youth vote in Texas by banning polling places on college campuses; similar measures are likely on the way across the country. And so all of this pathetic caviling about youth indoctrination rings false against the clear evidence that what Republicans actually want is simply to crush the political power of the young.

Republicans keep pandering to their gradually shrinking far right fundamentalist base and then wonder why newer voters think they are out of touch.

Compare how the parties feel on a lot of issues. It is not exactly a surprise that the GOP continues to fall short with younger voters.

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Foxconn Builds Robotic Factories With Omniverse & NVIDIA AI

Foxconn Adds New Factories in the US, Mexico, and Taiwan to Increase Blackwell Testing and Production.

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To get facilities online as quickly as possible, the biggest electronics manufacturer in the world leverages digital twins and industrial AI developed on top of NVIDIA Omniverse.

NVIDIA Omniverse is being used by Foxconn, the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, to satisfy demand for Blackwell, which is currently in full production. Facilities in the United States, Mexico, and Taiwan are going online more quickly than ever with to the platform for creating industrial AI simulation applications.

The employs NVIDIA Metropolis for vision AI, NVIDIA Isaac Sim for autonomous robot testing and simulation, and NVIDIA Omniverse to realistically integrate their facility and equipment layouts.

Through testing and optimization in a digital twin prior to implementing expensive change orders in the real world, Omniverse allows industrial developers to optimize efficiency. Foxconn anticipates that its Mexico site alone will provide in considerable cost savings and a yearly decrease in kilowatt-hour use of over 30%.

World’s Largest Electronics Maker Plans With Omniverse and AI

Factory planners are using Omniverse and NVIDIA AI to create actual AI-powered robotic factories in order to satisfy Foxconn’s expectat

In order to enable their teams to realistically combine facility and equipment information from top industry apps, like Siemens Teamcenter X and Autodesk Revit, the organization has created digital twins using Omniverse. First, floor plan layouts are optimized in the digital twin. With Metropolis visual AI agents, planners may find the best camera placements to measure and find methods to improve operations.

The Omniverse digital doppelganger serves as the Foxconn teams’ source of truth during construction, allowing them to communicate and verify the precise equipment location and layout.

By lowering expensive change orders in actual operations, virtual integration on Omniverse has the potential to save factory planners millions of dollars.

Delivering Robotics for Manufacturing With Omniverse Digital Twin

After the factory’s digital duplicate is constructed, Foxconn‘s fleets of autonomous robots including industrial manipulators and autonomous mobile robots use it as a virtual gym. Before deploying their AI robot models to their real-world robots, Foxconn’s robot developers may use NVIDIA Isaac Sim to test, simulate, and evaluate their models.

Foxconn may model robot AIs using Omniverse before using NVIDIA Jetson-powered mobile robots.

They may model automated visual inspection, item recognition, defect detection, and trajectory planning on assembly lines using AI models and Isaac Manipulator libraries.

In order to promote worker safety and serve as the basis for visual AI agent frameworks, Omniverse also gives their facility planners the ability to test and improve the placement of intelligent cameras before putting them in the real world. This ensures that the whole factory floor is covered.

Creating Efficiencies While Building Resilient Supply Chains

Foxconn intends to duplicate its precision production lines globally using AI and NVIDIA Omniverse. This will boost the company’s competitive advantage and market flexibility by allowing it to swiftly implement top-notch production facilities that adhere to common standards.

Because it can swiftly modify production plans and reallocate personnel to provide continuity and stability to meet shifting needs, Foxconn’s capacity to duplicate quickly will speed up its worldwide deployments and improve its resilience in the supply chain in the event of interruptions.

Production at Foxconn’s facilities in Mexico and Taiwan will start in December and early, respectively, of next year.

In Summary

NVIDIA Omniverse is being used by Foxconn, the biggest electronics manufacturer in the world, to construct and run new plants in Taiwan, Mexico, and the United States. Foxconn uses Omniverse, a platform for creating industrial AI simulation applications, to test autonomous robots, improve camera positioning, and visually integrate facility and equipment layouts.

Foxconn may save millions of dollars by minimizing expensive modifications to physical plants through the use of digital twins. In order to swiftly establish top-notch production facilities and strengthen its supply chain resilience, Foxconn also intends to employ Omniverse to duplicate its precision production lines all over the world.

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