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Boeing Signs $1B Outsourcing Agreement With India
AHN ^ | December 21, 2007 | Mayur Pahilajani

Posted on 12/22/2007 10:48:10 PM PST by nwrep

New York, NY (AHN) - The Boeing Company announced on Thursday that it has signed a $1 billion agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) of India as a part of manufacturing outsourcing contract.

According to the 10-year pact, HAL will manufacture sub-systems of Boeing's fighter planes including F-18 Super Hornets and Apache Helicopters.

Initially, Boeing will invest around $20 million annually to increase its manufacturing unit size and complexity along with business opportunities in the sub-continent.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Jim Albaugh, President of Boeing Integrated Defense System and Chairman Ashok K Baweja, the Indian defense Public Sector Undertaking of HAL.

The Chicago-based Boeing said in a statement on Thursday that it will provide Bangalore-based HAL with its technology to develop manufacturing processes for the production of the sub-systems or hardware for Boeing.

"The agreement represents an important step in our efforts to build solid long-term partnerships in India to make Boeing products more globally competitive, while allowing HAL to grow and expand its potential market around the world," Jim Albaugh said in a statement.

HAL has 18 production units and nine research and design centers in India with 32,000 staff members.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; bangalore; boeing; india; outsourcing
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To: randog

All that adamantly staying onshore does is put US companies out of business when they can’t compete with those who do go to the best value in labor.
I worked for a company that “went Indian”. True, they work for less. We did a productivity study, and found out that 1 American engineer produced the work of 20 of our Indian staff, but since the Indians were paid 1/20 of the American worker, it was a wash. But factoring in the re-work the Americans had to do for the shoddy Indian work, we found it was cheaper to have “spoiled Americans” doing the work. Unfortunately, our new Indian VP saw it otherwise.

You have explained the problem and results in a nutshell.
Congratulations.....

My neighbor needed a replacement window for his semi truck cab. The truck warehouse and the glass warehouse are both employing (illegal) Mexicans because they are cheap.

It took 3 attempts to get the correct window. That meant that the American desk help was on the phone for a number of calls with the warehouses, shipments were made 3 times with the wrong glass inside the boxes, and the final one was checked by 3 different people who could read and write English before it finally was sent the 3rd time by OVERNIGHT FED EX, which cost more than the original window. Someone explain to me how this is efficient and makes the truck company any money.
(BTW) He had to replace the window because 3 thugs tried to get into his truck when he was sleeping at Stockton Calif truck stop. They were armed. He had only a length of pipe. Want to guess if he is NOW aremed when in the truck??????


61 posted on 12/23/2007 11:06:09 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: rbg81

This is not commercial work, this is defense work—which is supposed to be done by US citizens. We will rue the day if we ever have to go to war against China and our supply lines stretch all the way to India. Free traders love to worship the almighty dollar, but there are real consequences to going cheap on national security. The problem with many Americans is lack of foresight: if you don’t see it happening right now, we dismiss the possibility. Unfortunately, we will likely learn that less too late and find out that the “bargain” we thought we got was prohibitively expensive.

I remember learning when I was a kid that the only reason the USA could fight a war on 2 large fronts- Europe and the Pacific was because we had out own ore mines, our own steel mills, and our own aircraft and ship building companies. Otherwise, we never could have beaten Hitler or Hirohito.


62 posted on 12/23/2007 11:08:32 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: hedgetrimmer

Right, so when Saudi Arabia invests in Citibank, people with Mastercards are now funding terrorism and Islamic monarchies.”

Probably so.


63 posted on 12/23/2007 11:10:18 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: grey_whiskers

Thanks for sharing your photo. Perhaps you should shave next time.


64 posted on 12/23/2007 11:46:14 AM PST by verity ("Lord, what fools these mortals be!")
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To: verity
Thanks for sharing your photo. Perhaps you should shave next time.

Which end?

I apologize.

I was just going to post a "My ass, Bob!" (quoting Dave Barry) when I remembered the photo.

Only *After* hitting the send button did it occur to me that it might be offensive.

Cheers!

65 posted on 12/23/2007 11:53:47 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ridesthemiles

You would NEVER learn that lesson today. Instead, you might learn that our strength is due to:
1. Free trade
2. Diversity
3. Our ability to outsource as much as possible
4. Our willingness to share our “great ideas” with the world (this last is actually from the Boeing Dreamliner commercial)
5. Our environmental regulations


66 posted on 12/23/2007 12:01:21 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

You’re just not getting it, are you?


67 posted on 12/23/2007 12:21:42 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Islam is the E-Ticket ride at Nutsberry Farm)
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To: ridesthemiles
They don’t get the concept of QUALITY

Quite true. Apart from Americans and Japanese, few countries understand the concept of quality. India has a lot to learn from the US regarding this.

68 posted on 12/23/2007 12:41:47 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Paleo Conservative

Good luck fighting against the populists here. I’m sure they’re good people, but they seem incapable of understanding business or economics.


69 posted on 12/23/2007 12:46:50 PM PST by Young Scholar
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To: Gondring
...sell products that are far more expensive than competitors' just because Indians are willing to get educated and work for less than spoiled Americans.

Allow me to ReWrite™ that...

...sell products that are far more expensive than competitors' just because Indians are willingable to get educated and work for less than spoiled Americans because of onerous union and minimum wage rules that make it impossible for American companies and workers to compete on the basis of cost.

70 posted on 12/23/2007 12:48:54 PM PST by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
At the time of the Bophpal disaster the same plant existed in Institute WV. It operated for years without a problem. I assume something like it still does, though the Union Carbide agricultural chemicals unit has long since been sold to other chemical companies. (I think Bayer owns it now.)
71 posted on 12/23/2007 12:50:32 PM PST by Reily
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To: grey_whiskers; antiRepublicrat; gridlock
Please remind me...was it cyanide (CN-, triple bond) or methyl isocyanate (H3C-N=C=O)?

Although it was predominantly MIC, it has been hypothesized that phosgene and hydrogen cyanide were also released because of the conditions/reactions that led to the release.

72 posted on 12/23/2007 12:56:08 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
Although it was predominantly MIC, it has been hypothesized that phosgene and hydrogen cyanide were also released because of the conditions/reactions that led to the release.

Phosgene? Great, WWI chemical weapons.

73 posted on 12/23/2007 1:01:03 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: gridlock

Agree there. But remember “operators” includes the local Indian management that didn’t care at all about safety.

The local management should have been hung out to dry as they were directly, criminally responsible.

American management should be held for their failure to properly supervise the locals, and they have already paid millions for that.


74 posted on 12/23/2007 1:06:14 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I’m assuming those who suggest this are saying the water was chlorinated.


75 posted on 12/23/2007 1:07:31 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: steveegg
because of onerous union and minimum wage rules that make it impossible for American companies and workers to compete

That's a large part of it.

Of course, it broadens out even more, into the macro-scale idea of how we borrow money from China to give it away to other countries (e.g., tsunami relief)...that is, we puff up ourselves via debt.

Even without unions, I expect many Americans would have the idea they should be paid more than an Indian for any given unit of work.

76 posted on 12/23/2007 1:09:08 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
Yes, it does...and it will continue until Americans realize that they can't expect to be paid way far above global market wages.

This is exactly what globalization is about. LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD and the only way to do that is bring down the life-styles of Americans. I saw an article on FR that claimed in China they paid something like .36 cents an hour for their slave labor. We have a long way to drop and obviously equalization has not taken place yet.

77 posted on 12/23/2007 1:09:09 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: nwrep
This does it!

I'm never gonna buy a Boeing F-18 Super Hornet, ever!..........and I'm gonna urge my friends and family to do the same.

My boycott list grows longer every day.

Leni

78 posted on 12/23/2007 1:12:01 PM PST by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !!!)
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To: gridlock
We drove them into the waiting arms of the Soviets over nuclear reactors back in the 70s. We don’t want to do that again.

I'm glad someone around here remembers that lesson!

79 posted on 12/23/2007 1:15:39 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: TalBlack
If Americans have to tighten their belts and work harder, fine.

That right there is my point.

Wishing we were alone in the world, where consumers around the world had to buy our products at any price we set, isn't going to make it reality.

So we have to face reality.

80 posted on 12/23/2007 1:19:03 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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