Kingston Factory Tour (Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Packaging & Shipping

The last part of our tour was the shipping and package area on the ground floor. This is where all the individual components that are needed to make Kingston's products are stored, and where the fully assembled and tested memory modules and flash memory products end up before being shipped around the world.


Aside from the people putting things into boxes, moving around boxes and doing paper work, pretty much everything at this level it automated. We were told that this facility had a very high inventory turnover rate, since generally speaking nothing sits on those selves longer than a few days.

Conclusion

This was first time that Hardware Canucks has had to opportunity to tour a facility that manufactures memory modules and flash memory products, and how lucky are we that it was a facility belonging to the most successful player in the memory module market. It is always enlightening to get a first hand look at the factories that make the products that we all take for granted, and from a reviewer's standpoint it was great to learn about the ins-and-outs of the production process. Getting to see how thorough Kingston's testing procedures are was particularly eye-opening, and I understand why they have no qualms offering a lifetime warranty on most of their memory products.

Maybe soon we'll get to see where Kingston's HyperX product line is developed at the company's global headquarters in Fountain Valley, California.