Bung Jo, Tadinya saya kira yang hebat2 di Tiongkok itu hanya ribuan saja, dan yang lain2 mengerjakan saja sesuai dengan petunjuk kerja. Dari yang dikatakan Tom Cook, baru saya tahu sudah jutaan yang benar2 mengusai bidang pekerjaannya. Teman saya yang tiap tahun lima kali ke Tiongkok untuk pesan alat2 pendidikan untuk keperluan sekolah SMP-SMA, ceritanya precies seperti Tom Cook, yaitu di satu locatie (kota) itu orang2nya mengahlikan diri di bidang yang sama. Teman saya kalau ke leveranciernya minta dibuatkan suatu alat dengan contohnya, langganannya akan bilang terus terang, onderdil2 mana yang dia bisa bikin, tetapi onderdil lain harus pada orang lain, lalu teman saya diajak ke temannya. Di situ langsung berunding, siapa yang bikin bagian apa, dan siapa yang menterapkan semuanya jadi satu. Lalu dihitung langsung ongkosnya, dan hari itu juga proyek baru contractnya diteken. Teman saya senang ke Tiongkok, sangat efficient, Saptu Minggu, hari liburpun bisa ketemu kepala2 pabrik, asal jauh sebelumnya beritahu mau datang. Dia bilang di Tiongkok dia bisa kerja 7 hari dalam seminggu. Dia punya ahli Quality Control, seorang wanita, PhD, yang control semua barang2 pesanan dia untuk qualitynya sebelum masuk jadi satu di container.
Salam, KH Op di 2 jun. 2020 om 20:52 schreef B.H. Jo <[email protected]>: > Saya setuju bhw highly skilled labor dan infrastruktur tidak ada yg bisa > mengalahkan Tiongkok disunia ini, sekarang ini. Jepang, Korea Selatan, > (barangkali juga Singapura). setingkat dgn Tiongkok tetapi ongkos > pegawainya lebih mahal drpd di Tiongkok. Sesudah/dibawah negara2 ini, > kemudian adalah Vietnam dgn ongkosnya lebih murah tetapi SDM nya kalah dgn > negara2 disebut sebelumnya. Kalau negara2 lain di Asia Tengara masih > dibelakang Vietnam. > > On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 11:22:49 AM PDT, kh djie [email protected] > [GELORA45] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > *Apple CEO Tim Cook: This Is the No. 1 Reason We Make iPhones in China > (It's Not What You Think)* > > *China is much more than a source of low-cost, low-skilled labor.* > > > > *Getty Images* > > *Take a look at the back of the box from which you unpacked your iPhone > <https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/here-are-5-iphones-apple-is-releasing-this-year-what-to-expect.html> > and > you'll see this: "Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China."* > > *Reading this tagline might trigger a vision in your mind of Jonathan Ive > <https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-4-ways-jony-ive-changed-apple-with-it-way-we-feel-about-technology.html>, > Apple's legendary chief design officer, dropping the drawings and technical > specs for the next-generation iPhone into a (highly secure) shared folder > that its low-cost suppliers in China > <https://www.inc.com/magazine/201611/maria-aspan/insiders-guide-to-china.html>can > access as they manufacture and assemble the product by the millions.* > > *But as Apple CEO Tim Cook recently pointed out, this picture wouldn't > tell the entire story of how an iPhone actually gets made today, or why > Apple prefers to make them in China. At the Fortune Global Forum in > Guangzhou in early December (my firm, McKinsey & Company, was the Knowledge > Partner), I listened to Cook as he explained why Apple continues to favor > China as its central base for manufacturing iPhones:* > > > > The number one reason why we like to be in China is the people. China has > extraordinary skills. And the part that's the most unknown is there's > almost two million application developers in China that write apps for the > iOS App Store. These are some of the most innovative mobile apps in the > world, and the entrepreneurs that run them are some of the most inspiring > and entrepreneurial in the world. Those are sold not only here but exported > around the world. > > > > *Highly skilled software developers developing apps for the App Store are > one reason Apple likes to be in China. But the depth of highly skilled > labor in the manufacturing space is why Apple makes its iPhones there:* > > China has moved into very advanced manufacturing, so you find in China the > intersection of craftsman kind of skill, and sophisticated robotics and the > computer science world. That intersection, which is very rare to find > anywhere, that kind of skill, is very important to our business because of > the precision and quality level that we like. The thing that most people > focus on if they're a foreigner coming to China is the size of the market, > and obviously it's the biggest market in the world in so many areas. But > for us, the number one attraction is the quality of the people. > > > > *Citing an example of the type of a highly skilled supplier Apple works > closely with, Cook talked at length about recently visiting one company > that it has collaborated with for several years:* > > I visited ICT--they manufacture, among other things, the AirPods for us. > When you think about AirPods as a user, you might think it couldn't be that > hard because it's really small. The AirPods have several *hundred* components > in them, and the level of precision embedded into the audio > quality--without getting into really nerdy engineering--it's really hard. > And it requires a level of skill that's extremely high. > > > > *And the idea that Apple simply hands over the design to a company like > ICT, which just manufacturers according to spec, is simply untrue, says > Cook:* > > It's not designed and sent over--that sounds like there's no interaction. > The truth is, the process engineering and process development associated > with our products require innovation in and of itself. Not only the product > but the way that it's made, because we want to make things in the scale of > hundreds of millions, and we want the quality level of zero defects. That's > always what we strive for, and the way that you get there, particularly > when you're pushing the envelope in the type of materials that you have, > and the precision that your specifications are forcing, requires a kind of > hand-in-glove partnership. You don't do it by throwing it over the chasm. > It would never work. I can't imagine how that would be. > > > > *Addressing the designed-in-California, made-in-low-cost-China impression > that many people have--an impression reinforced by the tagline that is > printed on every box containing a new iPhone--Cook had this to say:* > > There's a confusion about China. The popular conception is that companies > come to China because of low labor cost. I'm not sure what part of China > they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low-labor-cost country > many years ago. And that is not the reason to come to China from a supply > point of view. The reason is because of the skill, and the quantity of > skill in one location and the type of skill it is. > > > > *And China has an abundance of skilled labor unseen elsewhere, says Cook:* > > The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that > you have to have, the tooling and working with the materials that we do are > state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. In the U.S., you > could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I'm not sure we could fill > the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields. > > > > *Cook credits China's vast supply of highly skilled vocational talent: *The > vocational expertise is very very deep here, and I give the education > system a lot of credit for continuing to push on that even when others were > de-emphasizing vocational. Now I think many countries in the world have > woke up and said this is a key thing and we've got to correct that. China > called that right from the beginning. > > > >
