Floor 2 - Packing and summary
We're almost there after a marathon photographic slog in Gigabyte's factory.
The packaging department is also integral to the factory. We could do with a box-forming machine.
However, the finished retail boxes are manually placed into their packing boxes.
Tape here up, captain!
And, finally, strapping them up for transportation to a container ship and delivery across the world.
Summary
Speaking personally now, it's always hard to give a useful opinion on something if you have nothing else to compare to, and like my visit to Cooler Master's chassis/cooler factory, this is my first visit to a motherboard/graphics-card factory. As such, I think it best to simply state some of my observations.Firstly is that Gigabyte seems very concerned about the quality of the products it produces. This is made evident by the fact that not only does it have two factories still in Taiwan producing its wares - a system that's inherently more expensive than the all-Chinese model - but that it utilises many in-process checks, from pre- to post-production.
Secondly is that it seems to show a reasonable duty of care for its staff. Where necessary all the staff seem to have been provided with appropriate safety equipment to protect against the heat from the products as they're exiting the numerous wave-soldering machines, as well as fume extractors for those re-working the solder joints during the inspection phase.
Several areas of the factory were closed off to visitors, including the interesting-sounding mobile/telecom assembly process.
We'd like to thank Gigabyte for the opportunity to visit one of its factories. Perhaps next time we'll look at one of those situated in China, to see how it differs from Nan-Ping.
