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Seems like Boeing could benefit from a Netflix style chaos monkey approach. Formalize a red team with the power to sabotage parts and processes throughout the b
by delichon 3y ago
Seems like Boeing could benefit from a Netflix style chaos monkey approach. Formalize a red team with the power to sabotage parts and processes throughout the build, measure downstream inspectors' responsiveness and demote and promote accordingly. Isolate the red team from the rest of the corporate culture, reward them in proportion to estimated lives saved, and arrange for their reports to be made public without a filter. Anyway it will take some such radical reform and transparency to regain trust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
- bathtub365 3y agoExcept if one of the intentional faults gets through people could die.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoThey could stop it from going out to the customer
- zarzavat 3y agoYes but you don’t know what other faults may be introduced when trying to fix the first one. “X is broken. X is fixed. But while fixing X, Y is accidentally broken” is a common accident pattern. Unlike in software, you can’t just roll back to a last known good configuration. Every modification carries a risk.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoDon't fix it, dispose it
- bathtub365 3y agoThrow out an entire brand new airplane?
- asmithmd1 3y agoBoeing would lock non-conforming parts in a cage so there is no chance they will be accidentally used. Unfortunately, managers would overrule an inspector and get the parts released for use
- delichon 3y agoNow imagine that the manager knows there's an adversarial team actively working to entrap them into doing just that, with firing power and a financial incentive to use it.
- asmithmd1 3y agoOr imagine the CEO says, "Safety is everyone's job, we will accept no lapses in safety" Instead the CEO said "increase monthly production 10% this quarter" There is no trick needed here, just the proper leadership. The current Boeing CEO is an accountant who made a fortune running the private equity playbook of squeezing out costs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Calhoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Calhoun
- amiga386 3y agoAnd what if the management hierarchy actively fought against safety and quality inspection, and deliberately avoided making documentation, and worked to kick out or demoralise anyone who tried to ensure safety and quality? https://sdgln.com/news/2024/03/30/boeings-descent-into-chaos-the-untold-story-of-whistleblower-john-swampy-barnett/ https://sdgln.com/news/2024/03/30/boeings-descent-into-chaos... > Under the leadership of CEO Jim McNerney, Boeing underwent a seismic shift in its corporate culture. Driven by a desire to cut costs and bust unions, McNerney embarked on a mission to outsource the development and engineering of the 787 Dreamliner to suppliers, many of whom lacked the necessary expertise. This ill-conceived plan not only burned through billions of dollars but also set the stage for a systematic purge of Boeing’s most experienced and knowledgeable workforce. https://prospect.org/justice/2024-03-14-strange-death-boeing-whistleblower/ https://prospect.org/justice/2024-03-14-strange-death-boeing... > Deliberate nondocumentation was a cornerstone of the new Boeing culture with which Swampy came into constant conflict. In 2014, he was reprimanded in a performance review for documenting “process violations” in writing instead of flagging issues verbally and “working in the gray areas”—i.e., without leaving a paper trail. Nondocumentation was part of a larger “theory,” Swampy explained in an interview earlier this year with TMZ, that “quality is overhead and not value-added.”
- nunez 3y agoSounds like something the FAA and/or Boeing's accountants would shoot down the minute you think about it. Building airplanes is expensive as hell