A day at Xiaomi’s Bawal assembly plant: Witnessing the birth of one of India’s most affordable smartphones

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As the company unveils its most affordable product in India the Redmi A2 we got a chance to visit one of its factories and witness what goes on at the assembly line...

We were first taken to the factorys SMT plant where we were asked to put on factory overalls and shoe covers before we were gently frisked a part of the routine that the hundreds of workers here follow daily...

The SMT (Surface Mount Technology) plant was quite large with endless lines of machines whirring and beeping as they processed hundreds of PCBs every hour..

Obviously, since the entire factory is an assembly plant rather than a proper manufacturing one, most of the tiny components came wrapped in transparent packages and were not actually produced here..

In contrast to the SMT plant, where most of the process was automated due to the delicacy of the process and size of the components, the assembly plant saw greater human input..

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