Wow lots of Asians. I had no idea Asians even knew anything about electronics and manufacturing.

I am surprised that so much of the factory is a non-lean manufacturing setup, but more of a traditional assembly-line process. Also, the use of lots of inspection...I mean some inspection is still essential, but I hope they've poke-yoked the heck out of that place to ensure low escapes. Inspection doesn't really catch a lot. I may have to look at Gigabyte for future purchases as a fairly comprehensive final quality check is something that I bet other competitors spend far less on (letting the consumer be the final quality check...).

I find it interesting (ironic) that the less and less the US produces, how people are really interested in How It's Made type shows.

Wave soldering is kewl.

Three things about Gigabyte.

1. I wounder how much pollution they create?

2. The lady putting on the Northbridge, the last mobo i got the northbridge was attached very poorly, i wiggled it slightly and it fell off. even after i put some more thermal paste and pinned it down again, it was very fragile to the touch.

3. On that same mobo one of the heat sensors reads 78 degrees C, and there is no documentation where that sensor is. (Sensor 3)

that first picture should read:
a shot from the Buss!

That "DIP" sign is awesome!

I can never get enough of these kinds of articles. Wish How It's Made would do a motherboard feature.

Wow, the automated motherboard tester looks pretty sweet. We plugged in everything by hand where I am...

As for all the hand assembly and whatnot I'm surprised they're not more automated either, IIRC some of their competition is. Hand placement of through-hole components with production of this scale seemed a little bit of a throwback.

http://www.techreport.com/gallery/index.x?id=15743&image=32097

Whether its motherboards or shoelaces, I find the process of manufacturing rather fascinating to watch.

Wow. Way awesome videos... I wish so badly that you had one of the wave-soldering though!!

It's neat looking at this and comparing it to the ECS factory tour. I guess if I HAD to work at one of them as a Chinese youth, I'd prefer to work at ECS.

So many motherboards. Can't they just give me one of them?

Dugg - http://digg.com/hardware/How_motherboards_are_made_cool_factory_tou...

Great article Josh!

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It's worth nothing that every single motherboard is tested both electrically and with a quick POST check with specialized automated testing machines.