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Boeing is a good example of how screwed up management can ruin a company culture and therefore products with bad incentives. Contrast recent products like the
by steveBK123 3y ago
Boeing is a good example of how screwed up management can ruin a company culture and therefore products with bad incentives.
Contrast recent products like the 737MAX with the absolute workhorse and nearly unbreakable 777 designed 20 years earlier.
Really a shame.
- gukov 3y ago"They don't build them like they used to anymore" applies to pretty much everything these days. +1 for the Downfall documentary on Netflix. Answers a lot of questions.
- steveBK123 3y agoOne of my random theories of engineering is that as we’ve gotten better and more precise in our computer modeling we’ve also gotten overconfident in our own modeling abilities. So we no longer over design with random “engineering factors” added in for the unknown, saving on costs. This of course falls apart when reality differs in some unexpected way from our modeling and it turns out our “just cost optimally regulation safe enough” design actually “just shy of being actually safe”. The 737max debacles seem like patches on patches on patches trying to thread that needle.