Gigabyte Factory Tour 2011

The Packing Floor

Packing is carried out on another floor of the factory, so the boards are again boxed up and hauled on palettes over to the large elevator at the end of the room. Once they reach the packing floor, the boxes are unloaded onto another conveyor belt, which is the motherboards' last line before they leave the factory to be sold.


At this point, the boards are packaged into boxes, and all the extras that come with them are bundled into the box. The boxes are formed by an automatic pressing machine, which takes the flat packed boxes and presses them into a mould. These are then spat out onto the same line as the motherboards.


This stage is also where we found what must surely be the world’s leading practitioner of Sellotape-fu - the lady responsible for taping up the anti-static bags in which the motherboards are packaged. She only had a few seconds to seal the bags before the motherboard's box had passed by, and in this time she managed to remove the bag and board from the box, reorientate it, fold over the top of the bag, rip off three measures of tape and apply them evenly to the folded flap before placing the bagged board back in the box.


Once the motherboard and all its extras, manuals and driver CDs are in the box, the packaging is sealed and the boxes are packed, ten at a time, into large boxes for shipping. These are then bound with plastic strips by an automatic machine, and loaded onto palettes to await shipping.


We would like to thank Gigabyte for the opportunity to look around its factory and for letting us take photos throughout.