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Boeing was also pressured to outsource world wide, to spread around the grease to countries with large aircraft orders. They they didn't outsource because it ma
by _DeadFred_ 1y ago
Boeing was also pressured to outsource world wide, to spread around the grease to countries with large aircraft orders. They they didn't outsource because it made sense. They outsourced to get the sales guy his sale, and management their numbers to unlock compensation.
My buddy refused to work there just because of the nightmare of trying to certify it all/ensure compliance at every point.
- CPLX 1y agoThat's really not accurate. Yes, that is a thing that also happened, but that's not why Spirit Aerosystems existed, which is what I'm talking about. It's because Wall Street demands returns on capital in a way that's fundamentally incompatible with hardcore high tech manufacturing.
- lazide 1y agoAirbus does the same thing right now - [https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/commercial-aircraft/the-life-cycle-of-an-aircraft/production https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/commercial-aircr...]. Airbus is currently less of a problem because they more recently had huge issues/lost their minds, so they’re more on top of it right now. But it wasn’t that long ago they were literally faking black box data to cover their ass when their one of their new line of aircraft crashed at an airshow.. I don’t think Boeing ever went to that extent, but I guess we’d never know unless they did it particularly badly. Any sufficiently large/important organization tends to do stuff like this unless it is actively stopped. A generation or so is usually enough for people to forget important lessons.