According to China Business Journal, a Beijing-based weekly newspaper, saying that Apple had returned 5 million iPhones to Foxconn during last month. Quoted from an unnamed source in Foxconn, the Chinese press said the handsets were returned because they either were not functioning well or did not meet Apple’s standards in terms of appearance, and the number of faulty iPhones has reached up to 8 million units. Wow, five to eight million units, most smartphone makers don’t even sell this many phones. The report also said it will cost Hon Hai, Foxconn parent’s company, 1 billion to 1.6 billion Chinese yuan (US$161.8-259 million) to repair the defective iPhone. Foxocnn is now facing an issue on quality control due to poor management and the rapid development of factories. Most of the new promoted senior executives don’t have enough experience to handle the increasing orders from Apple. It’s not a full inspection on the quality process over at Foxocnn, but was obtained by a random sampling …
Last year, Apple tightened the rules for quality control, added pressure to improve its quality inspection of each iPhone 5 to the strictest standards, which resulted a workers’ strike over the tougher demands. There is a reorganizing of the production lines over at Taiyuan, Zhengzhou and Shenzhen plants early this month, and Apple has send people in to investigate the issue. The manufacturing lines have resumed last week for small-scale production, each of its assembly lines only churning out 1,000 to 2,000 units per day. The plant’s yield rate, however, is only 95 percent. We remember the factory plant in Zhengzhou can reach a daily production of 200,000 iPhones. In the mean time, Hon Hai spokesman has responded to the Taiwan media, denied the figures mentioned in the report. He said, however, that the company will look into issues of management and product yield rate mentioned in the report. Foxconn is the world’s largest original device manufacturer, and it known most famously for building iPhones and iPads for Apple. The upcoming new iPhone 5S will soon to be announced, we just hope we won’t see the previous scratches or stiffness problem.
It’s reported that most of the assembly lines at Foxconn have been reorganized.
5 Million Faulty iPhone 5 Returned to Foxconn