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Boeing Gears Up to Renew its Safety Culture After 737 MAX Crashes
In response to the two deadly 737 MAX crashes, Boeing’s Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Mike Delaney on Monday outlined how — beyond specific changes to its design practices and its manufacturing operations — the company’s leadership aims to rebuild and improve its entire safety culture. (www.seattletimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Would be somewhat believable if they were retreating to Seattle to focus on engineering and build quality instead of relocating to DC to more efficiently bribe politicians.
What? They just thought of this "safety culture" now? Must be affecting the bottom line.
Where was the Safety Culture that Boeing clearly lost ? Was it some magic combination of slogans, handbooks, algorithms, or elegant PowerPoint shows ?
No. The PROFESSIONAL culture was embodied in EXPERIENCED people with a clear sense of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Most were in Puget Sound, and knew each other well. Many were pilots, many were ex-military. The culture took four generations to develop.
IMO, after the MacDonald Douglas take-under, two factors came about which affected Boeing's Professional culture.
Consider first the influx and ascendance of MBA executives (Money Before Anything). Who likely overshadowed the influence of experienced aircraft design engineers at key levels of the Boeing organization.
Second, consider the MBA's dream for "GLOBALIZED and Outsourced " key elements of design and manufacturing.
Perhaps the MBA crowd considered home-grown Professional Experience a expensive luxury, before choosing to scour the globe, employing inexperienced workforces as mere "low-bidder commodities" ?
Seems possible that, while prioritizing " lowest worldwide cost " , they may have jettisoned the valuable PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE that EMBODIED the previous Safety Culture.
No. The PROFESSIONAL culture was embodied in EXPERIENCED people with a clear sense of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Most were in Puget Sound, and knew each other well. Many were pilots, many were ex-military. The culture took four generations to develop.
IMO, after the MacDonald Douglas take-under, two factors came about which affected Boeing's Professional culture.
Consider first the influx and ascendance of MBA executives (Money Before Anything). Who likely overshadowed the influence of experienced aircraft design engineers at key levels of the Boeing organization.
Second, consider the MBA's dream for "GLOBALIZED and Outsourced " key elements of design and manufacturing.
Perhaps the MBA crowd considered home-grown Professional Experience a expensive luxury, before choosing to scour the globe, employing inexperienced workforces as mere "low-bidder commodities" ?
Seems possible that, while prioritizing " lowest worldwide cost " , they may have jettisoned the valuable PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE that EMBODIED the previous Safety Culture.
Excellent!
And how! $8.6 billion in compensation to customers for having their planes grounded, $5 billion for unusual costs of production, and $6.3 billion for increased costs of the 737 Max program.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/17/business/boeing-737-max-grounding-cost/index.html
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/17/business/boeing-737-max-grounding-cost/index.html
Boeing makes a mockery of safety culture in its sales and marketing first method of doing business, placing safety and engineering in the back of the pack, barely paying lip service to the three hundred plus dead folks killed in 737max crashes. At a minimum, all the board and all the top levels of management ought to be fired and their pensions be revoked. All the monies the board and upper management stole in the last few years for performance bonuses needs to be clawed back. Period....
See my reply to Michasl Dendo below. My father once told me “If you want to know everything you need to about an aircraft company, talk to their inspectors and line mechanics”. Boeing has gotten very sick.
Are you a bitter former employee? Sure sounds like it.