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by jhghjmhnbgv 16y ago
There are very much fewer sub-contractors. Major system components are built in different plants in different countries but all by a handful of airbus subsidiaries or major aerospace corps. So the supply chain is much shorter and shallower
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by jhghjmhnbgv 16y ago
There are suggestions that part of the motivation was to reduce the power of the heavily unionized workers in Seattle and allow the company to transfer to a cheaper assembly plant in the south - just as car makers had done. If you are only
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by jhghjmhnbgv 16y ago
The airbus style big block integration actually worked quite well - engines from RR, undercarriage from airbus and wings from Mitsubishi all worked well. The problem was that they eg. farmed out the avionics to mega corp, who farmed out the
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by jhghjmhnbgv 16y ago
Airbus's distributed manufacturing is more about pork-barrel politics, it's spread around the countries that own shares in the airbus consortium Ironically Several of the components of the 7e7 are made in europe by Airbus suppliers. The un
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by jhghjmhnbgv 16y ago
Also very few of Walmart's products are critical path - if they run out of lemon scented cleanup squares the store still opens (gratuitous hitch hikers reference)
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by jhghjmhnbgv 16y ago
It wasn't the foreign suppliers that were the problem - Mitsubishi delivered the wings on time. It's was the excessive outsourcing to layers and layers of subcontractors without enough oversight. So a one mall plating shop in Albuquerque go