Photos: Inside Dell's Austin assembly plant
The 300,000-square-foot facility begins to buzz around 8 a.m. and churns continuously for a 10-hour shift (12 on the weekend).
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Desktop PCs ride a series of conveyor belts and elevators (square tower seen at right) in the 300,000-square-foot plant.
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Installing components into a PC takes a worker 2 to 3 minutes.
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Boxed PCs are prepared for shipping.
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Components arrive on one side of the plant, and finished PCs are shipped out the back door.
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Perhaps your neighbor ordered this PC a few hours before its assembly.
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A redesigned workspace allowed Dell to trim 20 seconds off the assembly process.
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Finished PCs are tested before being shipped.
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Employees work on the ground, while PCs shuttle on conveyor belts above.