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This seems to be common practice at Airbus. I recently did a public tour of one of Airbus' major assembly lines. I remember the tour guide telling us, that the
by cgeier 3y ago
This seems to be common practice at Airbus.
I recently did a public tour of one of Airbus' major assembly lines. I remember the tour guide telling us, that their customers (the airlines) either have their own QA people on the line when their planes get assembled, or pay another company to do it for them.
- someotherperson 3y agoYep, it's a very "trust but verify" industry.
- laserlight 3y ago> trust but verify I would like to phrase this as “trust and verify”, because the state of trust arises from being open to verifiability, contrary to common misconception that they are against each other.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoIt's also insurance against systemic failure at Airbus.
- lupire 3y agoIt's short for "trust, but also verify". They are naturally against each other, which is why the "but" statement is meaningful. "Slow and steady" vs "fast but steady". "Move fast and break things" vs "move fast but don't break things".
- nvm0n2 3y agoIt should be "trust because you verify". The other phrases don't really make sense.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoGiven the relative costs of their own inspection, the cost of the plane and the cost of a crash or downtime, it seems to make perfect sense. Plus the fact that these machines have a 30 year working life.
- moffkalast 3y agoMeanwhile Boeing just inspects itself, or at least they did before they fired most of their inspectors. It's really no surprise that they now have the build quality of the average aliexpress product.