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Boeing targets a culprit of 737 MAX production woes: 'Traveled work'
“Starting on March 1 of this year, we will no longer travel work between Wichita and our fuselage supplier [Spirit AeroSystems] and Renton [Boeing assembly plant],” Boeing CFO Brian West said. “It had been going on too long. So now we will only accept a fully conforming fuselage from Spirit, which means in the near term, there might be variability of supply.” (finance.yahoo.com) Más...
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"variability of supply" Sounds to me as if he is getting his excuses in early.
It sounds to me that that Boeing is getting its priorities right. Product quality takes precedence over product supply.
If only.
Pretty shocking. Did Boeing. Of pay attention that.Agile is not really suited to everything.
Fuselage not finishes, ydt …into the backlog for the next Sprint
Fuselage not finishes, ydt …into the backlog for the next Sprint
Hmm, he has to blame somebody, right? ... oh wait he's not blaming a "person", he blames a "process"! What next?
The word "culprit" in the headline sounds like this is about blame, but identifying a potential root cause and taking action to avoid it in future is actually standard practice in quality management. Permitting tasks to be done out of sequence is a credible root cause of error in any process. It's the reason why we have checklists in aviation, to ensure that we always carry out critical tasks in the correct sequence
