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If the article is accurate, it seems like it's a specific type of outsourcing causing problems here. Namely, that the thing they outsourced wasn't a commodity.
by im3w1l 3y ago
If the article is accurate, it seems like it's a specific type of outsourcing causing problems here. Namely, that the thing they outsourced wasn't a commodity. Spirit is selling them shit but they have to suck it up and try to patch the things together, because there is no one else to buy from.
- Zigurd 3y agoExactly: Spinning off Spirit makes no sense in terms of outsourcing: It was Boeing's own factory that formed the basis of Spirit, which made Spirit a sole-supplier of critical components with exactly zero technical advantage, and exactly zero capacity advantage over doing it in house. So why do it? It makes return on net assets look better? It makes unions fragmented and weaker? It provides a third party to blame when they shortchange quality? It takes soon-to-be obsolete production capital off the books? But nothing that actually makes anything about making planes better.
- g-b-r 3y ago> So why do it? It makes return on net assets look better? Precisely that, as with most of Boeing's outsourcing. Milk the cow, run and live happily ever after.
- g-b-r 3y agoSpirit was spun off Boeing and sold to a private equity firm (look it up if you don't know what they do). They make the core of the planes and have been run by a private equity firm for 9 years, it's surprising if we find "quality" problems? About sucking up: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/boeing-rules-out-buying-tier-1-supplier-spirit-aerosystems https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/boeing-rules-out-buying-t... (2023-06-01)