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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm assuming there must be downtime for maintenance and quality checks.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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?