The amazing volume of products that Apple is producing and selling is unthinkable. Apple sold 17 million computers, 38 million iPods, 40 million iPads and 93 million iPhones last year. How can one company produce all of this. There has been much news about Foxconn’s factory workers committing suicide and their struggles related to being uprooted from rural to urban life. Finally we are able to see how this machine is working from the inside.
Robb Hammond, founder and president of AERI (American Electronic Resource, Inc.). Founding member and former committee chair of the SAE AS6081 Standard created for the avoidance of counterfeit electronic components. Robb founded AERI in Costa Mesa, California, in 1994 as an independent distributor of hard-to-find, obsolete and allocated electronic components. AERI is AS9120B, ISO 9001:2015 and AS6081 certified, tests to AS6171 standards, and inspects every part in its in-house QC lab before it ships. Robb writes about electronic component shortages, sourcing strategy and counterfeit avoidance.
