Project Scheduling @ Apple

An example of a project at Apple is developing the new iPod, iMac, Mac Pro, Cinema Displays, iPhones. Usually they refresh cycle of these projects are yearly. For example, the tasks involved in developing an MacBook are that it starts with a solid block of aluminum, the aluminum goes through an extrusion process. After this, it goes through 9 separate milling operations to come up with the unibody of the notebook, which is the main component of the structure of the same. As a recommendation in the process is to make the process of producing the MacBook more efficiently.