a custom screw was the bottleneck in us mac pro production

custom screw sourced China held up Mac Pro build process Texas, with the tale highlighting one of Apple faces if it moves iPhone and Mac back to America...   Apple announced commitment to produce Mac Pro in United States in 2012, making it Apple product to be manufactured in the in years.   The slow start to production was down to lack of supply for specific kind of screw, by New York Times..   Speaking to three people who worked on the project, screws for Mac Pro were hard to source within United States.   The team behind Mac Pro required new parts as the design changed, and while components could be shipped from China, some elements Apple attempted to find closer to Texas.   While Caldwell was capable of producing screws to high capacities, owner and Stephen Melo had replaced the stamping presses for mass production with versions used for more precise jobs, due to China's ability to mass produce cheaply...   One former Apple manager noted the team at Flextronics working on the project compared to the larger teams China.   China's factories are also able to find vast numbers of employees in short space of time, such as Foxconn's pledge to hire over 50,000 people across all of its Chinese factories in the first quarter..   Helper is possible for Apple to increase in United States, and it would require significant investment time and resources for robotics and hiring specialized engineers, rather than hiring large numbers of low-paid workers.   Despite calls by Trump Administration for Apple to bring manufacturing to United States, the chance of it occurring in the climate is low...   Read more