I'm sure a lot of you remember the news that broke about the whole scandal with Foxconn factories and their working conditions.  Fortunately, the news has been steadily getting better and it the conditions are hopefully improving.  I think the part that stuck out the most for viewers is a new-found respect for technology and how it is manufactured, as well as for the people who work hard to produce the technology that we so often take for granted.   Now that some time has passed, we've been getting more and more inside details of both the Foxconn factories and the methods that are used to make the various Apple products.  There is also a video included in this post, so please be sure to check it out.

"Calling all factory nerds, especially those with a taste for Apple. Here's a rare video (below) taken inside Foxconn's newly constructed facility in Zhengzhou, China, where iPhones are manufactured.

The 4-minute video report from Chinese news site iFeng is in Chinese without subtitles and offers little in the way of details about iPhone production or even working conditions. But it does give you a good sense of the facility's scale, and it's exciting to see iPhones in the making.

In the video, an iFeng reporter is taken on a tour of the production line by Foxconn CEO Terry Gou. They start off on a helicopter ride that shows off the factory's size from a bird's-eye view. The 5.6-square-kilometer plant (about 3.5 square miles) is bigger than any other in Zhengzhou and has the largest living area for its 115,000 workers, according to The Next Web's translation of the report. And Gou adds that wasteland around the factory is being reserved for further expansion.

Inside the facility, the tour begins where iPhone 4S displays are made and then they move onto motherboards. "The motherboard area produces 10,000 units a day," The Next Web translates from the video. They then step into a clean room where the cameras are assembled."

Source: C|NET

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