SEATTLE: “IT’S TIME TO EARN IT BACK!!!” Reads the final line (in screaming all capital letters) of a discover board at Boeing‘s Renton remaining meeting line (FLA) in Seattle the place the ill-famed MAX model of the as soon as best-selling B737s are rolled out. It reminds technicians at work right here that “737 conformance rate for multiple (assembly) processes has dropped below confidence level” and that the objective is to “ensure a conforming product (for) our customers.”
With Boeing agreeing to plead responsible to a prison fraud conspiracy within the US, the previous slogan “if it’s not Boeing, I am not going,” is a distant reminiscence for now.Amid enhanced oversight by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing is attempting exhausting to win the trust back. It lately opened the doorways of its single (737) and twin (777) aisle FLAs in Seattle to a part of the world’s media. The senior administration admitted of lapses lately, whereas assuring corrective steps are being taken.
Clearly, there’s a lot of labor to be executed to regain the arrogance. Multiple aerospace trade insiders within the US who labored for Boeing stated the main focus in previous few years had shifted from engineering excellence to monetary efficiency.
The remaining straw proved to be the current MAX scare – Jan 5, 2024, door plug blowout on an Alaska Air B737-9 MAX within the US. Elizabeth Lund, Boeing’s senior VP (high quality) says the corporate’s first response “was to take immediate action to ensure that no airplane ever leaves our factory that could cause an accident. I will tell you very transparently.”
Jason Clark, VP & GM of the B777 programme and Everett website chief, stated “employee involvement (EI) – where workers discuss production issues regularly – has been brought back. “It was executed away with as there was a lot of overlap. By doing so, we misplaced the voice of the mechanic. Now we now have once more created teams for mechanics to talk about and repair issues,” Clark stated.
The elevated concentrate on security and checks has meant Boeing is churning out lot much less planes.
(The reporter was in Seattle on the invitation of Boeing)
With Boeing agreeing to plead responsible to a prison fraud conspiracy within the US, the previous slogan “if it’s not Boeing, I am not going,” is a distant reminiscence for now.Amid enhanced oversight by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing is attempting exhausting to win the trust back. It lately opened the doorways of its single (737) and twin (777) aisle FLAs in Seattle to a part of the world’s media. The senior administration admitted of lapses lately, whereas assuring corrective steps are being taken.
Clearly, there’s a lot of labor to be executed to regain the arrogance. Multiple aerospace trade insiders within the US who labored for Boeing stated the main focus in previous few years had shifted from engineering excellence to monetary efficiency.
The remaining straw proved to be the current MAX scare – Jan 5, 2024, door plug blowout on an Alaska Air B737-9 MAX within the US. Elizabeth Lund, Boeing’s senior VP (high quality) says the corporate’s first response “was to take immediate action to ensure that no airplane ever leaves our factory that could cause an accident. I will tell you very transparently.”
Jason Clark, VP & GM of the B777 programme and Everett website chief, stated “employee involvement (EI) – where workers discuss production issues regularly – has been brought back. “It was executed away with as there was a lot of overlap. By doing so, we misplaced the voice of the mechanic. Now we now have once more created teams for mechanics to talk about and repair issues,” Clark stated.
The elevated concentrate on security and checks has meant Boeing is churning out lot much less planes.
(The reporter was in Seattle on the invitation of Boeing)
