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Aerospace Blog

December 3, 2008

Airbus critiques Boeing’s 787

Posted at 4:27 pm

Wouldn’t we all like to know what our competitor is thinking?

Airbus put together a “Lessons Learnt” about Boeing’s 787. The document was obtained by Flight International’s Jon Ostrower who posted it on FlightBlogger.

The document gives Airbus’s take on Boeing’s production problems with the 787.

Here’s an excerpt from the blog entry:

All of this was further exacerbated, according to Airbus, by "low-wage, trained-on-the-job workers that had no previous aerospace experience" working at supplier partners. Airbus believes "inadequate supplier capability in design," contributed further, citing as an example that "Vought had no engineering department when selected" by Boeing.

Combined with an "insufficient supply of frame, clips brackets and floor beams" the result was a "loss of configuration" control stemming from production records on "deferred work that were found to be incomplete or lost in transfer." In addition, parts that did arrive complete to final assembly were "found to be completed incorrectly" requiring additional rework in Everett.

Airbus’s assessment of Boeing’s trouble with weight on the 787 is also detailed as well as the European jet maker’s predictions on the Dreamliner’s schedule.

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Airbus critiques Boeing’s 787
Airbus proves the axiom that "it's always easier to criticize than it is to do it yourself, (and a heck of a lot more fun)."

That being said, Boeing's predisposition to push the technology envelope once again gets it in a bit of trouble. Trouble it has a way of working out in time,(B247, B29, B377, B707 etc).

In the meantime, they should buy GM and put their automated structures technology to work saving the country's premier auto production company from oblivion thru technology while learning something about efficient production processes. Are you listening Boeing BOD?

IMHO

Bob
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