Originally Posted by
DAL4EVER
No doubt. I completely agree. The gist of what I was trying to get across is rather than doing the work in house with their experienced engineers, they went with "risk sharing partners" who had little to no experience doing what they promised. Boeing has laid off many junior engineers while retaining engineers who are close to retirement and many if not most won't be around for another plane. The problem is that Boeing is losing all of the people who had the knowledge and experience to resolve these problems. This is systemic of the larger decline of our manufacturing and engineering talent pool.
Neither Boeing nor Airbus can survive without outsourcing!
The competetive and comparative advantages of world class vendors is a must.
One of the most sophisticated programs was the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 which was delivered and certified on time and on budget. Ok, Boeing has a longer history with RR than it does with most vendors, but the principles of program management are the same.
AL