What Doesn’t Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them
Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there’s a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai-the middle of nowhere-you’d find Panasonic’s Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the world’s lowest failure rate. Well, not so quietly, actually. They employ…