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hey everyone we are at the inland factory one of them in near Taipei Taiwan this is a pretty cool machine I wanted to show off so this is part of the plastic injection molding process for making the cases I have plastic components on them we've seen some of the metal component metal machines already and those are it's everything from sanding to CNC machines and things like that this deals with the plastic so what we have here is basically a four-step process the first step starts back here and that is where the plastic components are input originally the plastic comes down and goes into an electrically heated tube and that tube is what helps prepare the plastic to be shaped so that plastic then is brought in here into this chamber you can see it's moving now so this big chamber will bring the plastic in close and press it when it's heated and that action of course shapes the plastic to be whatever shape the panel needs it to be whether it's got holes in it or embellishments or angles or whatever that happens here and then the part that's moving around up above me that comes over it reaches an arm down and grabs the plastic piece then pulling that up and bringing it back over to my left right now it brings it that way at which point it is dropped onto a conveyor belt and the conveyor belt moves it down to a factory worker an actual person who goes throughout the process of cleaning it up and preparing it to be placed into whatever pallet needs to be placed into prior to being applied to the case which is then of course shipped to you so now we're gonna look at the rest of the factory with b-roll of all of the machines at work and this will be all voiceover commentary from here this next machine we're looking at is pretty cool but it's something that you may have seen in the US or wherever you're from because it's somewhat standard this one is a manual CNC machine it is used to cut out shapes and effectively form the metal that you're looking at here in this example and they also have a drill bit attachment it's basically a drill bit it can mill a hole into the metal that the operator is currently working on so this can be used to create small tools or molds or things like that that will be used later for production purposes and in wind does make a lot more than just they've got some samples around their workspace their lab for buttons and things of that type another tool in the same room was the sanding machine and this is another one that may be somewhat familiar so this functions in two ways first of all the operator places the object to be sanded on the surface and it is a magnetic surface so the object won't move around they then turn the sander on and that begins spinning basically a giant wheel to grind down the service to be however smooth that they want it to be and then the table rocks the piece back and forth to assist in that motion where you get these sparks flying of course this generates a lot of heat which can impact the efficacy of the sanding process so the machine sprays water on the piece being sanded to cool it down so that it may continue to be efficiently and effectively sanded by the Machine and as with most factories there's also a quality control lab and this one had some pretty cool stuff that we actually got to see in action one of the first machines we saw here was the 3d coordinate measuring machine and that was next to a projection machine so these two work in conjunction to basically check the very fine measurements of whatever tool or part of a case is being made the 3d coordinate measuring machine uses a scanning head as you'll see in our footage here and that is controlled by a joystick by the operator the operator can use the joystick to navigate basically like a d-pad and that scanning head will get closer to the object and it can measure or apply changes as needed the next piece is the projection machine and this one is where you put the object into the bottom of the machine as you can see here and all it does is project it larger onto the display that's at the top of the machine at about head level so that the operator can inspect the object being quality tested and make sure that it meets the very specific measurements as required by the manufacturing documents some other cool things we saw in the in wind Factory were these really large press machines and these do exactly what you may think they do you take a sheet of metal and they can press the shapes and so there's two different types of these that we saw in their factory one was a stamp and this functions as just slamming down and stamping out the hole that is required and this may be to form for example a screw or a bar that's used in one of the fancier cases that in winds got and so there's these stamp machines they stamp out cut the shape and then the press machines which sort of come down with a huge amount of force and press the metal into whatever shape is required by the company now these also will stamp out holes so the stamp machines can cut out there's little tiny hex patterns that you'll see in some of the cases like the in wind 303 and these hex patterns are created by just milling a hole into a piece of sheet metal over and over and then they later go through a bending process the bending machine is pretty cool as well the piece of already pressed or stamped metal is fed into the machine at which point based on the spec input by the operator the machine will then bend the metal into the shape required and that may be something like an L shape for a standard PC case or something like that now towards the end of this area there's the assembly line and that is exactly as it sounds the assembly line is where the technicians who line the conveyor belt will assemble the pieces with whatever documentation they're given for that particular day the particular component being made whether it's a case or something else and this is where they actually will hand screw in all the screws the rivets bolts and get it together packed and ready to move on down the lines of shipping or wherever it may go next and normally one of the places that these products will go of course is the powder coating area and this was pretty cool as well so this powder coating for paint isn't a brand new factory for n when we were one of the earlier tours and that means that it wasn't really fully populated just yet so what you're seeing here is not what it'll look like in a couple weeks time as it ramps up into production one thing we did get to do though was see the powder coating in process and that was pretty fun so what happens is first a technician operator will take the piece of material whatever it is side panel or a front panel top panel whatever and they'll bring it into a booth where they spray it down with effectively a giant compressed air gun and that evacuates all the dust from the room so that the material can be worked on without any dust interfering with the paint so that gets all the dust off of it once it's sprayed off and hosed down with this air they'll place that piece onto a large ceiling mounted conveyor belt and that is very very slowly almost in a creepy fashion brings the component into the giant paint booth and it just keeps on rolling straight through and ever stops goes through the paint normally white or black right now and that paint is sprayed on by several cannons on the sides of the walls and you'll notice there are these giant filters as the component emerges from the paint area the filters are sucking in all this paint and this was important to us because we've got a camera at the end of it so we were of course concerned that some kind of paint would ruin the camera but no it gets sucked into these filters I asked how often they have to change them because they were taking on a ton of paint dust and we were told actually what they do is about every 35 seconds they will just drop a ton of that dust straight down into a pan which is later cleaned out so this was a pretty fun process to look at and once it's done I think we were told that the this particular part of the factory can take on more than 200 case components or cases simultaneously through the conveyor line and that pretty much sums up what we saw in Huan's factory very cool stuff we'll be looking at a couple more while we're here near Computex computex is next week one of the other final things in the in--when area was of course their showroom and they told us while in the showroom that there will be three new cases unveiled at Computex and we will be there to cover them as they come out that will include the D frame version to the X frame version two and another new case which was not disclosed so check back for that coverage we will be looking at that next week at Computex as always patron compostable video and helps out directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time