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14. iPad Disassembly and assembly in under 3 minutes!

Reply to Tesha (Reply #12)

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 02:03 PM

Feb 2012

http://www.iphonemodding.com/forum/showthread.php?3586-iPad-Disassembly-and-assembly-in-under-3-minutes!

Two minutes seems about right. But you also have to add people that ensure the flow of parts to assembly and who package the assembled units. Maybe 3 minutes in all for the final assembly factory.

Plus, there is also labor in making some of the parts in China. But there is probably more labor in things like the trouchscreen/LCD/backlight assembly, and that probably comes as a unit from South Korea or Taiwan.

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