Description	Since 1941 Siemens has been producing telephones in the small town of Bocholt, Germany. Today there are still 550 workers making cordless telephones for Gigaset, which separated from Siemens in 2010. In 2018 Gigaset started producing the first smartphone made in Germany. While the individual electronic parts for the GS185 smart phone are still being imported from Asia the finished product is put together in Bocholt. The special thing about the production is that the phone is put together by 8 employees at a time in a U-production-line with the help of robots or “cobots” by the company Universal Robots. These digital colleagues work collaborat ive, which means that they are involved in some of the production processes that need high technical precision. Other tasks that need more sensitivity are executed by employees. Thus robots and employees work hand in hand. Another robotic arm attaches the label to the smartphone. The employee only has to scan the smart phone. The scan machine issu
Date	2010s<div
Source	commons.wikimedia.org
Author	Sound Recordist: Kathinka Engels, Photographer: Inke Pickhardt, Video Recordist: Inke Pickhardt

Gigaset Smartphone Production V Attaching the Label

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