On Boeing’s earnings call yesterday, the company sighted some of the causes of delays in shipping the new 787 Dreamliner, including a lack of information, communication, and documentation from many of the Dreamliner suppliers. There were too many surprises when sub-assemblies showed up to the Boeing’s final assembly line.
So Jim McNerney, Chairman and CEO, said they are deploying a “small army” (hundreds) of Boeing professionals (manufacturing and procurement experts) to go work in the suppliers’ facilities.
He also said this: “(we) realized we really need to work with (suppliers) to make sure we have better visibility…we need that data transparency across all of the build in order to execute the plan that we’ve laid out.”
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